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...honors, Hill spent a year in private practice in Washington before being hired as special counsel to Clarence Thomas at the Department of Education's office for civil rights. She had reservations about living in Washington, which seemed too loose and unbuckled a place. "She was a real straight arrow," says Michael Middleton, who worked with both Hill and Thomas at the Department of Education and later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "Very proper and straitlaced. She was certainly no bimbo...
...model of restraint last week. The day after Bush spoke, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told the Israeli government that Washington would pick up most of the development cost for Israel's new antimissile missile, the Arrow. The U.S. is giving the Jewish state 10 used F-15 fighters and, said Cheney, will make sure the Israelis "maintain their qualitative edge." Cheney also said Israel has promised to store U.S. military equipment for American use in future emergencies, an arrangement Washington is negotiating with some of the gulf states as well...
...very far cry from the ritual indictments of the past on the grounds of racism, sexism, greed and so forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note the subservient posture of the squaw! And the phallic arrow on the ground, emblem of his lost though no doubt conventionally exaggerated potency! Eeew, gross! Next slide...
...Samarkand. Occasionally her work strikes an apocalyptic, Kandinsky-like note. One example is the great Painterly Construction of 1920, with its jagged black shapes and whirling cones of force playing across a landscape in turmoil. But generally the keel of feeling is even, the track straight as an arrow. Here was a determined young painter following her nose, with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling...
night, nor the arrow that flies...