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...bore. For Freud, despite his quota of failed pictures (failed, however, by standards to which most living artists don't aspire), is the best realist painter alive. To watch the development of his work -- even in the abbreviated form of one show -- is like watching a wily cock salmon compelled upstream by instinct, against the cataracts of modernist history, following its desires. Most of the major stylistic events in art since 1900, starting with late Cezanne and going on through Cubism to abstraction in its various forms, have had no apparent impact on Freud's painting. He is a rebuke...
...stance as an individual, Brown pointedly refuses to accept the usual burden of political correctness that comes with being a "gay author." With enormous relish, she has her characters tell stories of sniffing cocaine from an erect black penis ("It doesn't look as good on a white cock.") Nor does Venus shy away from the reputation of promiscuity enjoyed by the gay community. As she tells Frazier: "We shared our bodies. We gloried in the experience. I go my way and you go yours far richer than before we met. If I sleep with someone else, how can that...
Most Saddam watchers believe that he does not want to risk a suicidal death grip with Bush. Saddam's leadership since Desert Storm has been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...
While the clerk called for the department manager, the grocer showed me how to load, cock and fire the gun, and then tried to persuade me that a .38 might be better. Not once had I said why I wanted to buy a gun, much less this one. Both men had assumed I wanted it for protection, but the salesman didn't question the wisdom of buying this model. The manager arrived, told me I could return it and mentioned that Popular Mechanics had recently tested the Glock with excellent results...
...triangle by the T-stop. There was a party going on. A group of on-lookers ringed the party and occasionally threw objects and shouted anti-homosexual epithets. One of these spectators, a large man, leaned close to me and said, "Do you want to suck my cock?" and other similar statements...