Word: welter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, he can still inspirit his city. He wavered on school busing but stood fast on racial harmony; after a welter of racially motivated assaults in 1976, he led a march of 30,000 people to protest violence. During his tenure, Boston has rebuilt its downtown and waterfront, added thousands of hotel rooms and sold itself, accurately, as "the livable city." Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the ultimate urban mall...
...face tonally, without giving much information about it at all. "On that scale," Close points out, "a dot just can't be specific, it can't stand for individual hairs, it has to be very general." In the largest studies, the face may almost vanish in the welter of information, becoming ungraspable, as the original photograph never was. In between there are many thresholds of transition, where the changes of size alter the whole relationship, within the image, of photography (the source) to painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid altogether, transforming...
International reaction to the tragedy was swift. The U.S. provided six military helicopters and 2,000 tents and pledged an initial $1.5 million to a relief fund, while a welter of private charities set up funds of their own in American cities with large Italian immigrant populations. The European Community appropriated $2 million for disaster relief. Red Cross societies in at least nine countries, including Japan and South Korea, provided funds...
...WELTER WEIGHT...
Peking's huge central railway station is designed to handle 200,000 passengers a day, but even there the evening rush hour overcrowds every hall and stairway. One evening last week, in a welter of duffle bags and over-the-shoulder bundles, passengers hurrying to make the 6:30 to Hefei jostled against other travelers heading for the 6:40 to Fengtai. The four clocks outside the waiting-room doors said...