The low gray skies of Chicago prove once again to be a boon to photography, and the city has seldom looked better than it does here, in its chilly, minimalist beauty.
A third option would be for government to drop its ideological obsession with private ownership, force the Forestry Commission to protect woodland better than it does now, expand its operations and manage the trees entirely for wildlife and human access.
Which brings us to the second question raised by the loan and indeed to Neil MacGregor's incautious confession as he posed for photographers whilst surveying Illisos in its new location: "It looks much better than it does in London".
Like his creator, Abbott is also a wrestler and, Mallon writes, wrestling has rarely served Irving better than it does in this book: The sport's sudden, sweaty reversals — its flips, pins, escapes, and submissions — are all metaphorically made for a novel that evangelizes in favor of people's potential versatility.
It will never look better than it does now.
Science runs forward better than it does backward.
Yet India could manage better than it does now.
Strange, that it doesn't look better than it does.
The world can live far better than it does now.
That story line may have reflected last year's reality better than it does current facts.
The trouble is, shrimp cocktail ought to taste better than it does.
