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...streets of Xian, the principal city in northwestern China, are a hub of activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle...
...assertion, not explained further, that "time is negativity"; he quotes Frederic Jameson on Ernst Block on Marxism. Two comments on Beckett are separated by the sentence, "Krazy Kat hopes that someday Ignatz Mouse will love her (him); much ingenuity must be used in reinterpreting the meaning of the brick that conks her on the head." It all has something to do with nihilism, clearly, but neither literature nor politics, let alone their interrelation, seems to benefit from the addition...
Brian Connelly, a Suffolk University student and lobby organizer said yesterday that the only "brick wall" he and his co-workers met was Thomas Milady assistant secretary for post secondary education in the Education Department, who "basically said, Reagan's my boss and his stance is the one I'm going to take '"Connolly said...
...absolute theatricality. Hampton's vision contains not one depiction of an angel or a saint, let alone Jesus; this, however, is the source of its power, since the Throne is an empty stage set, literally waiting to be peopled by visitations more real to the artist than the brick wall of the garage...
...private letter to donors and faculty last week. Bok explained that almost the entire $16.5 million needed to build the new Fogg wind had been pledged or collected. However, he stressed stumbling blocks including a possible rise in brick prices, a relatively small increase in architectural fees, and potential difficulties with a proposed bridge that would have connected the new Fogg wing to the original building. Above all, he emphasized that generally hard economic times have precluded projects that ma entail unforeseen construction cost overruns and high operating expenses...