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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who had just finished addressing a mass rally in Calcutta when she received the news, immediately boarded her Tupolev twin-jet for the two-hour flight to New Delhi. At Delhi's airport, where her two sons and a small cluster of ministers were on hand to greet her, she quickly got into a car and was driven without lights to her office in Parliament House. Shortly after midnight the Prime Minister, speaking first in English and then Hindi, addressed the nation...
...Classified exhibit). Third, antipersonnel landmines are emplaced over the antimaterial mines to deter the enemy's mine-clearing operations. WAAPM (wide area antipersonnel mine--cluster bomb unit) has been used in this role...
...medical establishment, however, is not the only obstacle to community practice. Many idealistic young doctors who yearn to establish practices in rural areas fear being cut off from the advanced brand of medicine common to urban teaching hospitals. Others continue to cluster in the cities because there are few opportunities elsewhere. Of the 700 internships available annually in Illinois, fully 650 are in Chicago...
Epic Gesture. What the paintings of Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People...
...visual environment around us," explains Margolies. "Our thing in museums is an exercise in visual perception-letting you look at the same thing you have seen before but in a different way so you can think about yourself and how you perceive it." Children and museum guards tend to cluster in the corners to watch the on-the-air programming. Adults are variously befuddled, bemused or transfixed into playing trivia identification games ("Dammit, who was Jackie Gleason's wife in the original Honey-mooners?"). Some visitors consider the show out of place in a museum, but most have...