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...peacekeepers until support personnel arrive -- a messier scenario. Clinton also has not canceled plans to attend a major fund raiser in California Sunday, he adds, an unlikely place from which to supervise an invasion. On the flip side, holding off until Tuesday to ensure the military brass's "clockwork operation" exposes Clinton to a possible rebuke from Congress: TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a resolution vote could be organized as early as Monday night...
...feel free to write reams of diatribes and tirades if you feel passionately enough. It's the ultimate in "going over someone's head," since it goes straight to the front office of the College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Why, that letter comes every year like clockwork, so you could be writing your response from September...
...what of Dali's own clockwork? What wound him up? This is the theme of "Salvador Dali: The Early Years," an exhibition opening this week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curators, Ana Beristain and Dawn Ades, have brought together a mass of Dali's juvenilia, starting at age 12; the show ends in 1929, with Dali in Paris, moving through storms of controversy, the 25-year-old darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game...
...Like clockwork, Harvard police cars began rolling up to the magazine building at 10:30 p.m. An alarm company was called into secure the alarm in the event of takeover...
...slums and ghettoes of London have provided inspiration for generations of artists. Steven Berkoff's East, a hodge-podge collection of abstract scenes and monologues concerning one London family's daily life, draws on the squalid conditions and pervasive violence that spawned works from Oliver Twist to A Clockwork Orange. Conscious of this tradition, East makes an early reference to its setting as the turf "the blessed Jack" stalked. The play concerns the East End of London as much as the people who live...