I consider "Apex Hides the Hurt" a comic novel, but since it's also ABOUT RACE, I think people believe it has to be read a bit more soberly than I'd like.
But the subject of Disney's "Secretariat," directed by Randall Wallace ("We Were Soldiers"), is generally considered the apex of equine evolution (and modern breeding).
Once considered an apex of national politics second only to the presidency, the "greatest deliberative body in the world" is so riven by partisanship and gummed up by its own arcane rules that potential candidates from Georgia to Kentucky, Iowa to Montana are loudly saying, "Thanks, but no thanks".
Still, it's intriguing to see some of Smith's sources uncovered: a sketchbook from the early fifties shows him riffing on an image of a violinist torn from a newspaper, and we learn that the arrangement of forms in the iconic "Cubi V" (1963) — long considered an apex of nonobjectivity — was inspired by a snapshot of a little girl running with a plate.
But his main passion is resurrecting, in miniature, the New York Central Railroad's Hudson division from the 1950s glory days, when he used to take its 20th Century Limited, considered the apex of industrial design, to visit his grandparents at their house in Garrison, N.Y.
Dry-fly-fishing, which is considered the apex of steelheading, is the norm here.
The American alligator is considered an apex predator throughout its range.
The most apical section with visible cavity was considered as apex and the most basal section with at least 50% surrounding myocardium was regarded as base [ 23].
In our simulation, two types of tips are considered, single-apex tip and trimer-apex one, which are the models of sharp and blunt tips in the experiment, respectively.
