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...when Jurgis loses his job, for example. In spite of its bleak story, "The Jungle" is gorgeous to look at. Printed in full, rich color, Kuper's technique allows blending and shading in ways matched only by computers. The piece de resistance appears in the form a two-page spread of a labor strike. Kuper creates a cubist swirl of cattle, men, billy clubs, gears and skulls into a giant, violent abstraction...
...narrative thread for otherwise disparate stories, Damaged Goods and Reunion, in particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...
...cannot lead unless people follow,” former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said. “We can’t [spread democracies] without allies...
Rosenthal believes that hand sanitizers were effective last year in reducing the spread of disease...
...decade ahead of time. In his seminal book The Art of the Long View (1991)--now part of the curriculum at many management schools--Schwartz outlined three post--cold war scenarios for the year 2005. New Empires saw the rise of multiple warring trading blocs. Market World imagined the spread of capitalism creating a peaceful "global commons." But the most prescient vision was Change Without Progress--a world plagued by ethnic revolution, "global gang wars," corporate raiders, hackers and "portable radio-connected telephones...