Transience

"Transience" is a doomsday short story by Arthur C. Clarke. Probably the most interesting aspect of this story is its opening part - reluctant exploration of the surrounding world by a little child in a way that reminds of the first story...

In this article: Arthur C. Clarke

...agencies produce their own campaigns and distribute them on the web? Attitudes change. As permanence becomes a possibility, pride in transience starts to look questionable. The ad campaign that Hasbro thought it was buying from Tribal DDB...

In this article: Hasbro, Google Maps, Adam Greenfield, Google, and Wired.com

A departmental report in the hours after Sharkia's death was more frank. It said her ''issues'' had included drugs and alcohol, transience, refusing mental health services, previous self-harm, poor school attendance, and arguments with...

In this article: Suicide and Robinvale

...of the Basil Fotherington-Thomas in some of his work - an awful conservative, picturesque prettiness. He captures an idea of transience here, and of cyclical return - ideas which are central to the tradition of haikus. It is a scene of...

In this article: House of Commons

...neighborhood kids escape to brandish BB guns, build forts and evade watchful parents. It's also a place littered with the refuse of transience: pitched tents, cast-off clothes, beer cans and drug paraphernalia. "I always had this fear...

In this article: University of Iowa football, Air Force Academy football, Halloween, and Poison ivy

The fine-art photographer Sue Ford spent her life using her camera to address the transience of life. Fading mortality, expressed through artlessly simple portraits, was a Ford speciality. Her most memorable black and white photographs were...

In this article: Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, and Lung cancer

Whenever there's a break in the fighting, the movie's major characters become detached and artistic. Cao Cao recites poetry about life's transience, Xiao does calligraphy - she's seen writing the character for "serenity" - and Zhuge and...

In this article: John Woo, Cao Cao, Red Cliff, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, Hard Boiled, Zhang Fengyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and House of Flying Daggers

...dandelion which would make a good set for the X-Factor but doesn't convey much of an idea of Britain. Dandelion clocks are a symbol of transience - let's hope this one blows away soon. The World Expo, held from May 31 to October 31...

In this article: UK, Thomas Heatherwick, Shanghai, Goods and services, World Cup, Millennium Seed Bank, Clive Aslet, London, and China

In this it was intended as an expression of passionate feeling over classical decorum, of whimsicality over rigid formulae, and of transience over permanence (the vaulted ceiling of one room was actually made of papier-mache). The...

In this article: Horace Walpole, Gothic fiction, Yale University, and Joshua Reynolds

...exists to confirm that residential restrictions reduce sexual reoffending, protect children or prevent sex crimes. Such laws do create transience and homelessness, making dangerous offenders more difficult to monitor and undermining the...

In this article: Florida, The Miami Herald, Lynn University, Miami-Dade, and Minnesota