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...sense, this exhibition is an impossible task: you cannot boil down so vast a visual culture and ship it to a museum, especially when so much of the essential evidence consists of immovable buildings and their ornament. One silver altar frontal or a gilded retablo, no matter how impressive in itself, cannot possibly duplicate the devotional frenzy of incrustation that gives Mexican Baroque its special character, any more than a few Chacmool figures and feathered serpents can convey the impact of the step pyramids, ramps and avenues of Chichen Itza or El Tajin...
...deciding not to interfere with Solzhenitsyn's book, I proceeded from the premise that the evil inflicted on the Communist Party and on the Soviet people had to be condemned; we had to lance the boil, to brand what had happened with shame so that it would never happen again. We had to brand the truth firmly into literature...
...political solution, and second, pledges of funds to rebuild the A.N.C. in South Africa. The organization was legalized only four months ago after almost 30 years of outlaw status. Mandela's message in Washington, says Mabuza, will be, "Why turn off the heat when the water is about to boil...
...says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course, he says no. Any greater rebuke to her fatal attraction and she might be tempted to boil the rabbit...
Last week, with the Lithuanian situation coming to a boil, Bush noted that Britain's Margaret Thatcher had phoned Gorbachev. Bush wondered aloud to aides if he should call Gorbachev again. Bush was walking a high wire, supporting both Lithuania's right to be independent and Gorbachev's leadership. His message had been conveyed in public statements, diplomatic channels. But phoning is different. "Just to call," Bush explains, "say, 'Look, how's it going? What do you think about this?' I learn from it. I mean, it's a two-way street. It's better than a cable...