Word: flat
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ministries that once occupied whole buildings in Kuwait function out of single rooms. One can find the Finance Ministry, for example, in Room 311. Surrounded by six chairs, two card tables in the middle of the room offer all the flat work space available. Several phones and a single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch...
...just came out flat. We weren't skating and we weren't playing our game," Crimson forward Mike Vukonich said. "We were skating down to their level rather than playing at ours...
...illustrated grapes so lifelike that birds swooped down and tried to eat them. Parrhasius outdid him, however, by fashioning a curtain that Zeuxis, mistaking for fabric, attempted to pull open. A long line of artists have since striven to equal Parrhasius' success by bestowing an illusory third dimension to flat, featureless walls and ceilings. Known as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye), the style reached its prime in the Renaissance and during the Baroque period, when painters embellished churches and palaces with imaginary soaring columns, weighty domes and clouded skies inhabited by plump putti...
...military targets -- tank parks, antiaircraft and artillery concentrations, roads and bridges, fuel and water depots -- in southern Iraq and Kuwait. The aim would be to turn the area between Basra, a major southern command-and-control center, and the Kuwait border into a "parking lot" -- an area leveled flat, through which nothing could move...
...rustic lodge on Gull Lake in pristine northern Minnesota hums with singsong, flat-voweled excitement. The 500 sensibly dressed welfare workers in the convention crowd usually dish out encouragement for a living. But today they will be on the receiving end from a former recipient who managed to get herself off welfare and onto the best-seller list. Here she is, flashing her big white smile: Melody Beattie, queen of codependency...