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...solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...
...solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later on in the documentary, it is revealed that several children who had stepped on the mines had been forced to go around the heavily-mined perimeters of ARVN outposts, supposedly to clear brush away. In effect they were used as human mine detectors. At this one hospital alone 61 per cent of the patients in 1973 were "war-related" cases...
...indictment stunned the National Football League, which has successfully avoided any direct brush with gambling interests since Green Bay Packers Running Back Paul Hornung and Detroit Lions Tackle Alex Karras were suspended in 1963 for betting on games. The N.F.L. long ago adopted an injury-reporting procedure that was designed specifically to prevent what happened in the Pisani affair. Twice every week, each of the league's 26 teams must make public a list of injured players and their availability for the next game: "out, doubtful, questionable, possible or probable...
...Carolina ? was not Ford's idea of fighting a war. He kept requesting sea duty, and in a year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved by landing on a catwalk beneath him. The Monterey was a "lucky" ship, said Ford...
...Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and most are expensive but a few show a control of color and technique that let them transcend the banality of their subject matter...