"He goes to the precipice, but he doesn't jump off," explained Robert J. Callahan, who stepped down as the American ambassador to Nicaragua in July.
The form letter in use until just recently explained that Dr. Seuss's mail service was unreliable, because he lived on a steep and inaccessible precipice and because his correspondence had to travel by Budget, an ungainly Seuss beast, driven by Nudget, a Seuss Budget-driver.
That helps explain how the Nets ended up here, on the precipice of history.
It is his objective to capture Abramović's emotional energy by placing her within her own creative womb at a timely precipice; both artist and building are "exposed, strong, and marked with history," he explains.
The availability of new luxury housing like 15 Central Park West and the Plaza accounts for much of the high-end real estate boom — but how to explain that in those buildings, priced at $5,000 to $6,000 a square foot, bidding wars are still not uncommon, even as the economy wobbles, from many reports, on the edge of a precipice?
Even if biosemantics cannot explain our ability to represent such novelties as televisions and space shuttles, it is plausible to think that more primitive representational abilities have been, as it were, seared into our brains: the ability to represent precipices, food, predators, and the like.
Explain, explain, explain.
Precipice bonds first appeared in 1995.
And now, the present precipice.
