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...manifesto to the young artists of Italy. "We propose," they declared, "to exalt every form of originality, even if reckless, even if over violent." The futurist movement never became quite so reckless as its manifesto sounded, but for a time, at least, it did have Italy on the brink of artistic civil...
Shakespeare's breathtaking change of pace carries a man to the brink of eternity and then restores him to common humanity. On seeing Cordelia's body, the grief-stricken Lear cries: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?" In the extremity of human despair ("Thou'lt come no more") he utters his towering, fivefold "Never, never, never, never, never!" Then the dam of his unbearable anguish breaks with the homely request, "Pray you undo this button." No one but Shakespeare would have dared put those two lines together...
...failed. At week's end, the Belgian authorities turned to the mercurial Kasavubu. Even if he succeeded, he was given little chance of survival for long with Lumumba in opposition. Said a neutral diplomat in Leopoldville gloomily: "I have an uneasy feeling this place is tottering on the brink of disaster...
...photographic glimpse of something 6 billion light years away-and 6 billion years ago-probably before the earth or its sun were formed. During the past 6 billion years, the galaxies may have accelerated to almost the speed of light. If so, they have passed over the brink of the theoretically visible universe and entered a sort of limbo which cosmologists visualize only vaguely...
...movie with a corpse floating in a swimming pool and then have the corpse himself tell the story. He seems almost to be playing a game with himself to see how close he can come to the edge of questionable taste or implausibility without ever falling over the brink...