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...prostitute, but she possesses a maternal modesty conveyed by her relaxed posture, unassuming clothes and coloring in tonal browns. She's not a redhead, as are many of Toulouse-Lautrec's women, nor does she look embalmed and fluorescent as the harsh lighting of the Moulin Rouge was apt to render its drunk habituees. Absinthe Drinker is a refreshing contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's unflattering portraits. But here again, the work is not psychologically revealing, because the woman is shown in profile...
...militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have led to bloody battles, and the U.S. is apt to be involved. Your present successor in the White House has pledged 25,000 troops to help keep the peace in Bosnia. When you proclaimed the right to self-determination, it sounded noble and progressive, although not everyone cheered. Your own Secretary of State, Robert Lansing (you never did like...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...Word of mouth tells you who's apt to be more sympathetic. You go there and see if it's true," Nixon said. "Senator Kennedy has always been sympathetic...
...souls is enough to make one cringe. First of all, who are they? What moral qualifications do they bring to the work of the spirit? Upon hearing he had been named Prime Minister, Disraeli exclaimed, "I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!" -- perhaps the most apt description ever of the politician's vocation. Climbing greasy poles is dirty business. It requires a willingness to step on other pole huggers and a certain insouciance about the various moral stains thus acquired. It is hardly a school for spirituality...