Word: verticale
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Entanglements-across novels and across generations-are deep and haunting. The interplay is both vertical and horizontal in time. With rich intelligence, the author touches, sometimes brilliantly, on his old themes of the East's collision with the West, of rationalism and passion, thought and action.
One has only to look at those hands: enormously large and elongated, and so full of flexion folds as to be a palmist's nirvana. Tricassus Mantuanus, Melampus of Alexandria, John de Indagine - those late-medieval heavies of palmistry would have gone bananas over Satch Sanders' hands....The vertical line...
"What about Lon Nol?" I ventured. In reply, he drew on his slate twelve horizontal bars of equal length and twelve vertical bars, some short and some long. The long vertical bars represented good months and years, the short ones bad months and years. This was Lon Nol's...
Judging by the size of the crowds they attracted, the two biggest stars to emerge from last week's shows were Chloe Designer Karl Lagerfeld and Japanese Designer Kenzo Takada. People literally climbed into the windows of the Laurent restaurant on the Champs-Elysees to peek at Lagerfeld'...
Tiger. After chafing for four months at desk jobs, Herbert got what he had always longed for-the command of a battalion. He quickly turned it into a model for the entire brigade. Most commanders in Viet Nam watched the action from helicopters-a form of vertical absenteeism. Herbert led...