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...painting or in official portraiture, but in the "minor" and decorative work: the bright frothing of shells and red coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy and extravagant, and they still...
...never thought it would come to this. I thought Reagan was bluffing." Poli, he said, should have taken the court injunctions banning the strike as a reason to surrender with honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest. I think he blew it." Sandi Engel, a controller at Illinois' busy Aurora center, is married to a union welder who opposes the strike. Says she: "Every morning he tells me, 'What you're doing is illegal. You're going...
...broadened it to include other "harsh instruments." And in 1969, when students finally got sick enough of the Establishment/liberal hypocrisy that allowed ROTC to stay on campus training bomber pilots, they took over the main administration building. Not only did Harvard officials roust them in a bloody pre-dawn bust, the also battled each other to see who could mouth the most pomposities about "academic freedom" and "free and open scholarly debate." Less than a year later, the Faculty followed their lead, passing the "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" and setting up a commission to enforce...
Pursuing a "buy-bust" strategy against individual dealers, agents have proved adept at going under cover and making arrests. But the DEA has not had enough accountants and skilled investigators to unravel the major international drug rings. Today there are four times more heroin addicts in the U.S. than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...
...afford the best boats, planes, navigational equipment and weaponry that money can buy, but they have also hired experienced military talent to supervise their operations. The smugglers have their own intelligence, counterintelligence and reconnaissance units. Their logic is as blunt as their favorite Mac-10 submachine gun: any sizable bust by the feds must of necessity be the result of a tipoff. You find the squealer and eliminate...