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...Fernand Leger's, testifies to this -- in A Battery Shelled, 1919, even the smoke is metal. "I look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures in The Mud Bath, his early masterpiece of 1912-13, have a tonic decisiveness that is only magnified by the simple color scheme of red, white and blue...
Such jokes -- delivered, as all her slings are, with a great guileless smile -- fulfill the tradition of the defiant female wit, alive with innuendo, that stretches from the Wife of Bath to Belle Barth. They also tend to obscure Midler's unique talent. Yes, she coos bedroom ballads like Long John Blues; sure, her charts tease five decades of popular music with the wink of parody. But her laser-precise technique is no counterfeit of feeling. It is the art of the Method singer, who approaches a song as an actor does his text: finding the heft of a melodic...
...himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with the Communists...
...celebrate their affection for one another . Although red roses and chocolates are the most traditional gifts, everyone has their own idea of a perfect Valentine's Day date, be it chartering the Concorde to Paris for a romantic evening in the City of Light, taking a hot bubble bath, or picnicking on the beach in California...
Peace and quiet figure heavily in some people's idea of a perfect Valentine's Day. "Someone would have a drawn, hot bubble bath waiting with a rose and a glass of champagne," says Yolanda Barrera, a proctor in Pennypacker Hall. "That's all I would want. Just Leave me alone to relax for a couple of hours...