Word: intersection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...
...stop exaggerating their pluralism. Everyone belongs to overlapping subcommunities, and these share many common concerns for the good. What might be called "conditional absolutes" often appear as bases for deep agreements in the midst of pluralism. They serve as working hypotheses for the common moral life, assumptions that intersect our tribes, churches and individual lives...
...play is saved from being overly grave and melodramatic by Horowitz's fine ear for both the poetic and comic rhythms of natural speech. His characters speak that elliptical language made familiar by Pinter--a series of monologues that only rarely intersect, made up of short-circuited sentences, non-sequiturs and repetitions. The special idiom of the absurdist play demands from its actors a particular sensitivity to the purely aural qualities of speech as well as split-second timing and O'Brien never lets his cast miss a beat...
...Henry Timm, who seems made for the portly malevolence of Kafka's worst bureaucrats, these skits are well done. Playing the father, the magistrates, and the ape who discovers humanity in a bottle of Schnapps, Timm has a masterful sense of just where it is that absurdity and humor intersect...
...path of totality, while lecturers on board discuss the fine points of the event overhead. The best view should be obtained by seven French, British and American scientists. On June 30, they will board a supersonic Concorde jet in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, fly south and intersect the path of totality near Chinguetti. Then they will race the moon's shadow across some 1,700 miles of Africa at nearly Mach 2 speeds (1,300 m.p.h.). Traveling at times only slightly slower than the shadow itself, they will see the blackout for some 80 minutes, longer than...