And completely by chance — but who knows? — the latest sculptures from the Post-Minimalist Richard Tuttle, on view at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street, seem to riff on Tatlin's tower, or at least its precarious permeability.
Three more days follow in the mountains, and if they do not determine the race's outcome, they will at least be precarious ones for Armstrong or whomever is in the lead.
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, wood or coal as cooking fuel, farm animals and disease vectors and at least one precarious condition was higher among children in rural compared to those in urban areas.
We insist this matter should be resolved as soon as possible, not least given her precarious state of health".
For all the misery they can engender, sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the developing world's greatest problem.
Though bleakly portrayed, they still attract the reader's sympathy, not least for their precarious, ill-paid jobs and filthy working conditions (the office carpets not cleaned since 1977, according to the paper's lore).
As they wait to learn when, or if, they will return home, Pharbati studies, tends to her siblings and dreams of a future as a teacher – a future that feels, for the moment at least, just as precarious as her present.
Still, the pair acknowledge that any channel's hold on the public is precarious, not least because, as Mr. Shukoff said in an interview, viewers are "very fickle".
Israel insists on negotiations without preconditions and says the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is avoiding negotiations, not least because of his precarious position given the recent upheavals in the region and pressure from his rivals in Hamas.
The visitors urged the students to take risks but to expect, at least at first, a precarious existence, riddled with setbacks, that will require obsessiveness and a thick skin — and they made it sound like the grandest of adventures.
