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...Bellow picks and chooses at details and fills in the context with tight prose. One example will illustrate. Early in the novel, he devotes hundreds of words to a description of a typical evening at Ravelstein's Chicago apartment, watching basketball with his male grad students. The deeply Athenophilic Ravelstein is surrounded by eager, virile, attractive young men-"Ravelstein's young men." Bellow writes, "At his basketball parties, Ravelstein passed pizza slices among his graduate student guests, his bald head swiveling toward the busy, colored TV screen behind him. His lot, his crew, his disciples, his clones, who dressed...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Picture of Allan Bloom | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...gave it a context to try to make it accessible and intimate in a way I've seldom seen...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Words, Words, Words: Talking Hamlet | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Roche Holding AG are set Thursday to announce a program negotiated with the United Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that decision was highlighted by Wednesday's announcement of an executive order by President Clinton that Washington would refrain from enforcing U.S. patents on AIDS drugs in African countries battling the disease. That would leave those countries free to license or develop far cheaper generic versions of the patented drugs - already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Africa Will Get AIDS Drugs at Giveaway Prices | 5/11/2000 | See Source »

...that one of the main difficulties experienced by the Clinton administration in ratifying the Kyoto protocol is the inadequate coverage of interests represented by developing countries. If China, India, Brazil and most of Africa still consider national action plans for mitigating global warming as an unaffordable luxury in the context of a lopsided global trade and development establishment, then substantial environmental peddling remains to be done by the U.S. Unfortunately, the U.S.-sponsored Country Studies Program, the highly successful multi-agency program dedicated to assist developing countries in mitigating and adapting to global climate change is facing discontinuation...

Author: By Dele Ogunseitan, | Title: The Future of the EPA | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...sculptures, photographs, manuscripts and mixed-media artifacts, mostly drawn from the museum's permanent collection. Less successful is the semi-transparent veil of cloth which enshrines several sculptures and paintings in the center of the room. Creating the illusion of a chapel is an original idea, but out of context in the setting of a museum...

Author: By Anya Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: There's Something About Mary | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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