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...movie-mad as myself, sometimes taking us to two or three double features in a single week. (I used to feel sorry for other kids when I talked about Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns or "Dr. No" or "North by Northwest" and find that they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. No wonder they were so ready to kick...
...second clue produced by the trolling operation was a tape recording of an August 1986 telephone conversation between a Washington-based spy named Aleksander Fefelov and "B," the highly placed volunteer double agent. Two FBI analysts who had worked with Hanssen for five years listened to the tape, enhanced to minimize noise, and concluded "without reservation" that "B" was Hanssen...
Fortunately, doctors have developed reliable tests to diagnose the illness. The presence of several key antibodies in the blood provides one important clue. The clincher is an endoscopic examination of the small intestine that reveals damage wrecked by a runaway immune system...
...actually a piece of irony that I'm here tonight," Hopkins said. "I went through my academic career without a clue. To be at an American university as great as Harvard is a thrill and an honor...
Actually, Muybridge's influence is a useful clue to LeWitt's intentions. Those photo strips of humans, horses and birds moving in space, their movement chopped into small progressive stages, are the direct ancestors (with cubes or grids substituted for the live subjects) of structures like LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cubes, 1974, which squeezes more variations out of a six-sided figure than you might have thought possible. And yet this solemn undertaking has more the air of a stubborn exercise than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line...