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...stop off at Bert Vaux's Linguistics 80: "Dialectics of English," for a brush with a topic most high schools rarely mention. Though the class is notoriously simple and often taken as an elective, Vaux is a widely-known lecturer who manages to pulls in hundreds for his fall core class, Social Analysis 34: "The Knowledge of Language...
...arguments and powers of persuasion as strong as he and Rove pretend, his tax bill would be law. But after more than 20 road trips to pressure Senators to support it, Bush was unable to turn a single vote his way. Again, Rove can paint with a broad brush. When Bush came to Washington, no one thought Congress would support such a large tax cut. If he gets 80 percent of what he wanted, that's enough to call...
...more memorable works, titled “From the Sources,” Weil paints a pair of hands holding a paint brush. The range of oranges in this canvas alone is impressive: While the background is painted loosely in a happy mango orange, the shade gradually merges into the russet-orange of the hands, and finally to a lemony yellow evoking the images of autumn leaves. While much of the paint is loosely layered, a thin layer of pastel blues and khaki greens can be identified underneath the intense oranges. These blues and greens are made visible through...
...most visually exciting pieces is entitled “Midnight Snack,” a large acrylic and collage on canvas. The viewer is immediately drawn into the piece by its bold use of raw color and vibrant brush strokes. One of the few recognizable shapes in this painting is the female form in a large cooking pot. This image could be seen as a strong social statement that the artist is trying to make, but the abstraction of the piece leaves these questions ambigious...
...Yasser Arafat, of course, may take a different message from Tuesday's events. In the Clinton years, the Palestinian leader perfected the art of starting brush fires when negotiations weren't going his way in order to bring the U.S. fire brigade running. Even now, his strategy has been to allow and encourage Palestinian militants to fire rifles and mortars at Israelis, hoping to provoke them into heavy-handed responses that affect Palestinian civilians and draw international condemnation. Arafat may even interpret the Israeli withdrawal after a condemnation by Washington on Tuesday as vindication of that strategy...