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...appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when the bug inspects the woman's lips, busies itself at her nipple or ventures between her legs, she's as motionless as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Whatever else Fly might be, it's a weirdly absorbing encounter between two forms of life, one a tireless speck of aggressive curiosity, the other a serenely mysterious stretch of pure being...
...Buchanan himself summed up the week's madness in a historical perspective: "Look, people forget these things in a week," he said. He recalled violence outside the Democrats' 1968 convention in Chicago and said, "Compared to that, this is high tea at Buckingham Palace." Adds Choate: "All the publicity is bad because it suggests a certain chaos," he says. "The Reform party's public image was badly hurt this week, but fortunately in American politics most controversies have a half-life of two weeks...
...stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back in the game now and takes the reader on a good ride. Why not? She went on one herself that took her from the White House to Buckingham Palace...
...Queen still travels in a gilded stagecoach from Buckingham to Westminster to deliver her speech to the members of parliament, even though the speech is now written by the government and consists of an official outline of its political projects for the new parliamentary session. The speech is still delivered before the House of Lords, even though that chamber ceased to have real power many years ago. An officer in a funny dress still summons the members of the House Commons to listen to the Queen's speech, and the Commons still slam the door in his face and keep...
...people love monarchs and princes. If the British were to abolish the monarchy what would become of their tourist trade? Would elderly couples from the Midwest still stand in line to see the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace? Level-headed reasonableness and practicality sometimes advise compromise with imperfect institutions. And as far as imperfect institutions go, the monarchy is a fairly harmless...