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Ross Perot likes to punctuate his crisp prescriptions for complex problems by eyeballing the TV camera sternly and intoning, "It's that simple." Yet little about Perot himself matches that terse description. As his bizarre charges of Republican dirty tricks detonated across the political landscape last week, the dominant facet of Perot's makeup became increasingly clear: he is an incurable conspiracy monger who espies plotters in every thicket and easily persuades himself that some of his wildest suspicions are true...
Though it didn't come close to Big-Eight Conference hoopla, I discovered that Harvard football could be fun. I was awed by the alums' brie-and-wine tailgate parties. I liked the crisp October weather. I loved the fried dough. And I kind of liked listening to the band, although I had trouble understanding the lyrics to what appeared to be Harvard's one-and-only school song...
...last room of the exhibit holds studies of birds, flowers and insects. These works show incredible accuracy--from a few steps back, Pieter Withoos' drawing of butterflies looked like a composition of actual insects. These works differ greatly from the landscapes or portraits; the nature studies are crisp, bright and very life-like as opposed to the subtle sketchiness of the other works. However, the combination of the different types of drawings makes this show an interesting showcase of Dutch work...
...crisp autumn day last year Palestinian negotiators returned home from the opening of Middle East peace talks in Madrid to a rousing welcome from their once skeptical constituents. Thousands of Palestinians lined the streets in the West Bank city of Jericho, waving olive branches and whooping with joy. It seemed that finally the Palestinian masses had embraced the idea of bargaining -- instead of fighting -- for their future...
Inspired by the mystery of Glenn Gould's technique, Ugorski's technique itself is not very clearly defined. His range is so great that it is nearly impossible to classify him as one type or another. His flawless mastery of the keyboard is evinced in his crisp octaves and his ability to juxtapose high velocity against controlled technique...