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...course, is that it was ready for somebody to kick it in the pants. Enter Rauschenberg, with his new shoes on. It wasn't that he hated Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. To a man of his unbridled disposition, their vigor, their free gestures on the canvas were bound to appeal. But within a few years he would arrive at something in his own work that was more loose limbed and encompassing?and a lot less solemn?than even the most tumultuous drip painting. Eventually a Rauschenberg could happily include slapdash washes of paint, old shirts, a discarded sock...
...father being bundled into a truck by either government forces or fearsome freelance thugs. That scene, it must be said, reprises earlier writing. The tendency is a major flaw in Lee's corpus - if one writes almost exclusively about one's family history for two decades, repetition is bound to occur, and Lee's descriptions of chaos and burning villages and countries "twice erased/ once by fire, once by forgetfulness" can often feel flatly formulaic...
...Barcelona-bound boatloads of very expensive water are a means to ease that tension a bit. "It's a provisional solution," admits Barcelona mayor Jordi Hereu. "But it makes me calmer about our chances for avoiding an emergency." Maybe so. But it also points out how much more money and political energy will have to be expended to manage the distribution of an increasingly scarce resource. And the difficulties keeping the population hydrated in a politically tranquil Mediterranean democracy like Spain augur poorly for the drier and more desperate regions of the world...
...most of us already are. We all know the musical prodigies with no social skills and the social butterflies with awful grades, but the large mass of us are pretty smart, pretty social, pretty adaptable, and pretty driven. And, as the Syeshas of the world, we’re bound to win. Or at least wind up in the finals...
...election to restore civilian rule and offer Pakistanis hope that a coalition of their country's two largest parties would bring much-needed stability to the troubled South Asian nuclear power. "Please give us a chance," Zardari said soon after a coalition agreement was finalized in March. "We are bound together in the spirit of democracy...