Above all, it is a work of daring: a popular, celebrated artist has set aside familiar devices and stepped into the unknown.
Mountain climbers often set off on expeditions to summit unconquered peaks, but in this month's edition of National Geographic Radio Expeditions, NPR's Alex Chadwick tells the story of four mountaineers on a daring expedition across a vast, desolate landscape in northern Tibet for the goal of conservation.
So here was a billionaire daring to erect a new building near where Jean-Paul Sartre had lectured workers in the spring of 1968.
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Serving in a segregated army, barred from facilities at the base where he trained, he fought heroically in Europe, leading a daring daylight attack against a heavily armed enemy.
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Mr. WINTER: Well, I suppose there is a certain daring spirit in a lot of people, and they like to live in a place where they can get up in the morning and see the beautiful Gulf of Mexico and the live oaks and enjoy the balmy climate that exists there most of the time.
SAINT-JEROME, Quebec (AP) Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.
Nevertheless, the thinking by Uruguay's government is the most daring in a growing debate about drug policy in Latin America.
But blazing radical new trails such as allowing multi-candidate elections for top party posts would require extraordinary political daring for a leader still finding his feet.
Since the choice of a conservative firebrand like Ryan will be viewed as a daring choice, Romney may see a temporary boost to his campaign.
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Tha Carter III's first-week sales, which were easily pop's strongest since Kanye West's Graduation last September, were spurred by a daring marketing strategy that doubled as a cocky musical challenge.
It was wonderfully deft in its controlled daring: a lieutenant colonel baiting a rear admiral in public was a scary tightrope act, even in a community as notably hostile to Navy brass as the Marines.
He also has a forthcoming book, The Daring Spectacle, a collection of his columns.
Warrior, lover, scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger and revenge.
But Blavatnik has not been deterred, making a daring second bet on the company that looks like a winner.
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Tense banter quickly gives way to a daring rescue of some very-not-white people on a bridge.
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Yachvili converted and before he added a penalty Dragons full-back Martyn Thomas launched a daring counter-attack that ended in disappointment as he sent out a poor pass.
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With a daring coat, it is essential to keep the rest of the ensemble pared down.
That is a daring move for most retail investors, though not an impossible one.
It takes a daring pragmatic designer to go all out and fuse fashion successfully with tennis.
Time magazine called the show "a daring, unflinching take on very American workplace tensions".
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Loeb also looked smart by making a daring and ultimately successful bet on Greek bonds.
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They were freed Monday after Berry staged a daring escape while Castro was away from the house.
He is playing a daring game of chicken on Wall Street--and winning--because he has less to lose.
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But Daring Fireball has a few numbers which show quite how much they do indeed dominate this sector.
And yet there's no denying that creator, composer and performer Dave Malloy has crafted a daring piece of theater.
Patria , a daring, experimental, exuberant purveyor of pan-Latin food, is still tops.
In a daring display, the fashionistas, who normally trade in exclusivity, have opened their hallowed halls to mass-market brands.
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