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...wall labels he rashly insisted on appending to his work. All that these revealed was the vice of the autodidact-a mania for cultural name dropping. They read like Woody Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne is my favourite painter too ... Maybe that's why he draws so many...
...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...
...Serb victory left some routed defenders and Western diplomats wondering aloud whether the Croats had yielded Bosanski Brod by prior agreement. Bosnia's Croats want western Herzegovina to the south just as badly as Bosnia's Serbs need the corridor...
...RE91 Brod ALLEN (6-3.226.SR) RT 95 Mike SEARS (6-3.235.SR) NG 46 Rob ULSES (6-2.225.SR) LT 93 Jim JENNINGS (6-3.240.SR) LE 98 Kurt GUTIERREZ (6-2.205.JR) LB 54 John RONEY (6-1.225.SR) LB 55 Jim GENTILE (6-1.225.SR) CB 18 Eric GRIFFIN (6-0.188.SR) CB 37 Kerrut McKELVY (5-9.184.SR) SS 19 Bob SILVER (5-9.192.SR) FS 26 Mike TEASE (5.11.182.SO...
...Hayman's attitude towards Kafka, it is, not surprisingly, less reverential that Max Brod's; Brod's biography seemed to be written chiefly as an antidote to the view that anyone who created Gregor Samsa must have been a dark and morbid character, though Brod's work is honest and engaging, we almost lose sight of all the self-torture in the radiance of the saint-like glow. Hayman's biography is more balanced, but also admiring (as anyone must be) of Kafka's incredible lack of cynicism, even as he was dying...