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...fire. He got a similar report at Pump Station No. 6: six of nine pumps were submerged, and three later caught fire. The Corps last week outlined $40 million in work needed to repair more than 60 city pumps, a number of them made at the beginning of the 20th century. But the process takes so much time--35 days--that the repair work won't be finished until fall, toward the end of the storm season...
...divorce after four years of marriage between an older man and a younger woman isn't usually headline material. But the split between Sir Paul McCartney, 20th century cultural icon, and Heather Mills, former model and campaigner against landmines and fur, is another matter entirely. The couple issued a bland statement blaming the media for most of their problems. "Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much but have found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives," they said. But the British tabloids are awash...
...Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This...
...senior men to paint their ceremonial sand designs onto the local school wall, an artistic one was unleashed. In a series of concentric circles and squiggles, their Honey Ant Meeting Place ("Papunya Tula" in Pintupi) was conjured up, and one of the most extraordinary art movements of the 20th century had begun...
...even when the protagonist was a famous politician with amnesia (Palombella Rossa, or Red Wood Pigeon) or a local priest with anger-management issues (La Messa è Finita, or The Mass has Ended). Moretti's serial use of a humorous, self-referencing onscreen persona - and one plagued with late 20th century, middle-class angst - has drawn inevitable comparisons to Woody Allen. But whereas Allen tends to distance himself from his onscreen characters, the Italian director milked the connection. In his two features from the 1990s, Moretti played the part of a Roman filmmaker named Nanni Moretti trying to make...