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While Heckroth would return to England, the movement stayed. And the Agapitos/Wilson Collection makes marvellously clear how this "whore of the polymorphous," as James puts it, sunk its tentacles deep into the body of Australian art. Its spirit can be traced through the floating cow canvases of Sidney Nolan, the twisted tree trunks of Russell Drysdale's drawings, and the veil-like fish net that descends on Max Dupain's 1936 photo of a naked bride. What emerged was perhaps not pure Surrealism, but a psychological shift which was true to a movement that sought, above all, to liberate...
...convenient. In many areas of the U.S., if you had a craving for cookies a century ago, you had to fire up the woodstove and make the dough from scratch. If you wanted butter, you had to churn it. If you wanted a steak, you had to butcher the cow. Now you jump into the car and head for the nearest convenience store--or if that's too much effort, you pick up a phone or log on to the Internet and have the stuff delivered to your door...
...remember lying down and lighting a cigarette, and that's all I recall until I felt something nudging me and a real soft voice, kind of a questioning voice, was saying, "De lait, de lait, de lait." It was an old man who had just finished milking his cow and was offering me some of the warm milk. I took it, against all regulations, by golly. By gosh, I drank it. Not since being a kid did anything taste so good as that...
...with what they earn from conventional cars and light trucks, especially their luxury brands. The Big Three--Ford, GM and Chrysler--are even more reliant on SUVs and big pickups for profits, and if hybrids eat into sales of conventional models, the industry would be maiming a critical cash cow. So while auto executives talk of a greener future of hybrids and hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles, they continue luring customers to gas guzzlers loaded with powerful engines, luxury amenities and gadgetry and moving them off the lot with generous incentives...
...raising the question of whether French justice is more arbitrary than blind. - By James Graff A Hidden Danger? BRITAIN New research published in the Journal of Pathology suggested that as many as 3,800 Britons could be unknowingly harboring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame when a Russian passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane...