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But attitudes are one thing, results another. Generally, the constructions are the flimsiest area of Wiley's art. His watercolors and oils are a different matter. The White Rhino Injured, 1966, is a marvel of surrealist compression: the unfortunate pachyderm's skin is reduced to several turns of...
Granatelli insists that STP is a valuable lubricant, but the elixir mixer guards his formula as if it were vital to the national security. The major ingredient is apparently polyisobutylene, a long-molecule petrochemical that sells for about a dollar a gallon, appreciably less than STP. In fact, STP spends...
Sir: Your article on compression fractures of the vertebrae, "Snowmobiler's Back" [March 15], struck a responsive chord. For several years now I have been studying the vertebrae of Canadian Eskimo skeletons recovered from archaeological sites, some of these dating back a thousand years. One of the things noted...
Today many Eskimos are abandoning their dog teams in favor of snowmobiles, but the compression-fracture problem, it seems, will still be with them. Particularly vulnerable will be the poor fellow who rides a sled towed behind the snowmobile, a common Eskimo practice.
Ouologuem manages his tableaux with a violent compression of energy, as if he were staging Marat/ Sade played by the Keystone Kops. Over the centuries, in the name of Allah, in the name of Christ, in the name of the god of self-interest, "that precious raw material, the niggertrash...