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Politicians sensed TV's special emotional potency very early: in 1952 Richard Nixon saved his vice-presidential campaign against charges of financial wrongdoing by declaring that his wife wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat" and defiantly vowing to let his kids keep "a little cocker spaniel dog" named Checkers. Now political operatives watch the declining ratings for the traditional convention format and conclude, rationally enough, that the public's taste has changed, that it wants to "feel" the data rather than think about them. And, in the spirit of those Hollywood bigwigs they so roundly condemn, they are more than...
...capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
MOSCOW: The second bomb in as many days exploded on a Moscow city bus Friday morning. At least 27 were injured, eight seriously, when TNT hidden in a cloth bag tore the front end from a bus about three miles north of the Kremlin. President Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks...
Draped in embroidered cloth, laden with candles, redolent with roses and incense, the altar at the Santa Fe, New Mexico, home of Eetla Soracco seems an unlikely site for cutting-edge medical research. Yet every day for 10 weeks, ending last October, Soracco spent an hour or more there as part of a controlled study in the treatment of AIDS. Her assignment: to pray for five seriously ill patients in San Francisco...
...magisterial Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher, circa 1899, the heavy leaf-pattern curtain on the left and the folds of white cloth below it have the same sculptural density as the fruit and the jug, with its exquisitely suggested peony design. But there, on the right, Cezanne has another white cloth, its folds sharper and more geometrical, its surface unfinished, so that you see glimpses of table through it--and the balance is suddenly perfect, despite but actually because of this shift of gear. Then there is the play between mass and instability--how the fruit...