portmanteau (a blend of words) combining "Trump" (referencing U.S. political figure Donald Trump) and "tornado". The term is used informally, often in political commentary and media, to describe the perceived disruptive, whirlwind, or chaotic nature of Donald Trump's political campaigns, presidency, and its impacts on global affairs, the economy, and domestic policy.
The phrase uses the imagery of a tornado—a powerful, unpredictable, and potentially destructive windstorm—to characterize the rapid and significant changes associated with his actions and style.
Key aspects the term often implies include:
Disruption and Chaos: A rapid, ferocious, and often unpredictable style of leadership and policy changes.
Widespread Impact: The wide-ranging effects of his policies on various sectors, from the economy (tariffs, taxes) to international relations and climate issues.
Uncertainty: The difficulty in predicting the severity or direction of future changes under his influence.
The term has been used by various publications, including The Economist and MarketWatch, since his initial political rise in the mid-2010s.
Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.
To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. Our word salary derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt). There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren't actually paid in salt, as some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc. and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance....
心情： But the pandemic has made me realize that I’m not sure how much I’ll really need to have salted away to protect my family and to keep our solidly middle-class standard of living intact, both now and into the future. 但這場疫情讓我意識到，我不確定我到底需要存多少錢才能保護我的家人，並維持我們穩固的中產階級生活水平，無論是現在還是將來。
salt sth away
— phrasal verb with saltverb[ T ] UK /sɒlt/US/sɑːlt/
A salt cellar is an article of tableware for holding and dispensing salt. In British English, the term can be used for what in North American English are called salt shakers. Salt cellars can be either lidded or open, and are found in a wide range of sizes, from large shared vessels to small individual dishes.Wikipedia
beauty. what arouse pleasure.
originality vs individuality
simple structural skeleton.
intertwined in a symmetrical triangle of two inclinedaxes, and it is only because of this elementary schema that we can read the detailed design.
in the highest of achievement of the applied arts, be they are the Parthenon or the Ronchamp or the Bacelona Chair. Cellini's Salt Cellar, made for Francis I of France, 1540–1543. Gold, partly enameled, with an ebony base. Depicts Earth and Sea personified.
Cellini's Saliera, made in Paris, 1540–1543; Gold, partly covered in enamel, with an ebony base.
“How can you expect a beholder to experience my picture as I experienced it? A picture comes to me a long time before-hand, and yet the next day even I do not understand what I have done.”
Pablo Picasso is pictured in his Cannes studio, the Belle Époque Villa La Californie, in 1956
Image A section of a Greek urn (circa 340-330 B.C.) in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy, showing the Chimera that Bellerophon is readying to kill.Credit...Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio Dell’arte Luciano Pedicini/Luciano Pedicini/Bridgeman Images
Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age
Whenever the human world is in trouble, our imagination turns to this creature: a hybrid beast that defies easy understanding.
This past week, Trump referred to his Mar-a-Lago resort as the "Southern White House" in yet another clear violation of the (not phony) Emoluments Clause. Here are 3 ways to hold our grifter-in-chief accountable.
Michael Cohen is about to make Donald Trump star in the one reality TV show the president has spent his entire life avoiding.
A Grifter, is somebody who can influence anybody, anywhere, at anytime, into doing whatever they choose to have them do, that will result in the grifter's personal gain. Usually monetary, but really anything that benefits him or her somehow.
Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web New York Times By ASHLEE VANCE Microsoft has created a chimera in its new Office 2010 software, part desktop software and part Web app. This latest version of Office, ...Working paper: The End of Chimerica Download the PDF. For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the basis of a financial marriage between the world's sole superpower and its most likely future rival. For China, the key attraction of the relationship was its potential to propel the Chinese economy forward by means of export-led growth. For the United States, Chimerica meant being able to consume more, save less, and still maintain low interest rates and a stable rate of investment. Yet, like many another marriage between a saver and a spender, Chimerica was not destined to last. In this paper, economic historians Niall Ferguson of HBS and Moritz Schularick of Freie Universität Berlin consider the problem of global imbalances and try to set events in a longer-term perspective. chi·me·rachi·mae·ra(kī-mîr'ə, kĭ-) also n.
An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
A substance, such as an antibody, created from the proteins or genes of two different species.
An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.
[Middle English chimere, Chimera, from Old French, from Latin chimaera, from Greek khimaira, chimera, she-goat.]
Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.
A section of a Greek urn (circa 340-330 B.C.) in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy, showing the Chimera that Bellerophon is readying to kill.Credit...Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio Dell’arte Luciano Pedicini/Luciano Pedicini/Bridgeman Images![A painting by the Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi titled “Tasting a Piece of Her Gum” (2023), which she made exclusively for T. Khatibi’s work deals “with animality and our primal instincts,” and she often paints anthropomorphic subjects who “live on their impulses in alluring, exotic landscapes,” she says, “ambiguous [in] their relationship to power, violence, sensuality and each other.”](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/02/16/t-magazine/16tmag-chimera-slide-5FHY/16tmag-chimera-slide-5FHY-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=600)
