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...wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel's message; it was to be smeared with chicken blood...
...spot (see cut). How does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The landscape is not too different. But American trees are too uniform; Chinese trees are more interesting. What I missed most was the mist." For Huang this presented no insuperable problem. He simply left blank areas of rice paper to indicate the mist, in one view added two Chinese fishermen in the bed of Yosemite's Merced River, for good measure...
...Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace in Algeria without a blank check from Parliament, and this the present regime would not grant...
...says Lindsey, who works as a short-order cook on Los Angeles' industrial East Side, "I called a repairman to fix my 21-in. TV set." The repairman took one look and said the tuner was broken, a minor matter of $20 or $25. He produced a blank "authorization" for repairs for Lindsey to sign. "So I signed...
...European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with blank-faced men, women and children, before marching off to the front, where he was killed immediately. Marc completed his paintings of trapped, wounded animals, and died a soldier's death at Verdun...