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When we were being transported from the city to the county jail (handcuffed, escorted by nervous shotguns), the deputy, having heard that we were coming, came downstairs to meet us. He is supposed to fill out an information blank on each prisoner, so there is a brief interrogation session before one is run up to the fifth floor cages. "Youah name Weavuh, dat raht?" Without thinking, I replied, "That's right." He leaped across the table and beat me out of the room and halfway down the hall. I finally went limp and fell to the floor, hoping that...
community theater, from across the street a Vietnamese suddenly rushed the entrance. Holding the butt of a rusty pistol tightly in both hands, he fired two bullets point-blank into the lone MP guard, Army Pfc. Peter Feirben, 18, of Milwaukee, killing...
Familiar Target. It was high time a decision was reached. Greece has just come through its second national elections in four months, and Turkey last week was stunned when a politically disaffected gunman fired three shots point-blank at Premier Ismet Inonu but missed. On Cyprus the British troops, who have been desperately trying to prevent Cypriots from slaughtering one another, were reinforced by 1,500 men, bringing the garrison to a total...
...fossil is in the midst of a flourishing rejuvenation. In the first step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue. At the same time, the Institution got a plain-talking new boss, S. Dillon Ripley II, 50, who has set out to erase the impression, "held by educators and laymen alike, that anyone associated with a museum is some sort of stuffed specimen...
Houdon sculpted with shadow as much as with stone, drilling out the pupils for an astonishingly lifelike look instead of leaving the eyeballs blank. He chiseled out individual character, pried out the significant wrinkle and the evanescent gesture. He parted his subjects' lips so that they seemed ready to speak. Unlike the rococo court sculptors who used the female figure as cool erotic decoration, the neoclassical Houdon used the solid curves of woman to convey sensible warmth. His Shivering Girl and an even more naked Diana were denied admission to the Paris Salon in 1785. Said a critic...