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BEATINGS, sexual perversion and political betrayal shake the cloistered campus of a tony British prep school!! Sounds like a sensationalist headline from London's Daily Sun or better yet a passage out of David Copper-field. Wrong on both counts. This intriguing plot comes from Julian Mitchell's 1981 West End hit Another Country...
...last cold-scented Saturday afternoon I would walk through the brick-and-iron gate with that copper "1" adorning...
...mediocrity and the illusion of choice might well be the twin goals of American mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...
...year. Prices are upscale too, with microbrews selling in supermarkets for as much as $11.94 for six, as compared with $3.99 for light beer and $6.49 for imports. Many of the microbreweries have pubs attached, and much of the fun comes from gathering there, usually in view of copper brewing vats, and nibbling on such sturdy fare as chili, nachos and chicken wings...
...take practical lessons from old masters like Rubens and Caravaggio; it must find an "independent pictorial space to establish its ties with the everyday space of perceived reality." This ran counter to the whole argument of American formalism -- and of the movement with which his early black, aluminum and copper stripes had been associated, minimalism -- which strove to isolate the space of pictures from that of the real world. The results were a set of brilliantly colored oblique reliefs, the Brazilian paintings of 1974-75, followed by the Exotic Birds in 1976-80: images so unexpected that Rubin is right...