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...ideal world, these legislators-for-life would reward the faithful electorate with an impressive display of bravery and statesmanlike behavior. So much for naive theory. To watch the House at work last week was akin to viewing one of those 1950s science-fiction movies in which the world quakes in dread of invaders from outer space. The climate of fear was that palpable...
Saturday's rally, a SWATer explained to me, protested a Fly Club rule requiring to enter via the side door, admittedly it sounds akin to the segregation laws of the South. While I do not approve of the rule, I don't think a private club that doesn't serve public needs is bound by the same laws as a public restaurant. Unfortunately women submit to this rule, but I don't think taunting them will help. I will also put on the record a request: If I ever ask such a thing of a girlfriend, she is to slap...
...disturbed by some SWAT members' behavior Saturday. The snide remark of my fashionable apathy strikes me as akin to the arrogance, condescension, and elitism that SWATters purport to protest. I hope this doesn't characterize all members of SWAT. I thank the woman who insulted me for hearing and acknowledging my complaint. I was surprised SWATters chanted while I explained myself--a group that expects others to hear their argument will not hear another. I was even more suprised that a group advocating civil rights tried to limit my freedom of speech...
Light counts for a great deal in Kossoff's work. The paint is never opaque; it contains streaks and underglows, akin to the suppressed radiance in Rembrandt's midtones. And there is atmosphere too. One particularly senses it in Kossoff's view of Christ Church in Spitalfields. This tall, slender building, designed by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, acquires a comatose power; the columns of its portico look as thick and squat as those of Karnak, repeating the compression of Kossoff's nudes and heads. But it is the light that one most remembers, a pale, almost chalky emanation...
...case of opposites attracting. Lorenzo said he was counting on SAS employees to impart their dedication to service to his 70,000 workers. Carlzon said he hopes to learn some of Texas Air's cost- cutting techniques as the European airline industry enters a period of deregulation akin to the one that Lorenzo has weathered...