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...Thais are too sophisticated for such crude devices. Their fighting kites, which cost up to $18, are made of rice paper delicately stretched on a fragile bamboo frame, and come in two sexes: the star-shaped chula, or male kite, and the diamond-shaped pakpao, or female. Each has its special weapon. The chula sports five bamboo talons called champas (literally: fruit pickers), and the pakpao carries a long noose called a nhiang. The male kite tries to capture the female's control string in its talons and drag it to earth; the female tries to encircle the male...
...What puzzles me is the fact that Johnson is making a joke of being President. His driving escapade in Texas, his reception of tourists at the White House, and his crude conversations are not characteristic of a good President...
...LOWER DEPTHS. In a crude beam-and-burlap basement, a group of humanity's dregs inhabit a no-exit hell of thoughtlessness, meanness and cruelty for each other, until a stranger for a while tries to set their lives in motion again and soothes them with the balm of understanding...
...this treasure chest came bones of a lowbrowed creature that Dr. Leakey named Zinjanthropus and assigned in 1959 to an honored position in man's direct ancestry. He was sure that Zinjanthropus was a toolmaker because crude stone tools were found near his remains. Many anthropologists disagreed with both these conclusions, and now Dr. Leakey has changed his mind. He now believes that Zinjanthropus was an Australopithecine, a nonhuman vegetarian of low intelligence and not a toolmaker...
Relief in an Image. No other writer of this era has so movingly championed what a man sees against what he knows. All the delights of this world, Borges implies, are to be found in the concrete; all the disasters, in crude abstractions that crush men's senses and make them cruel. Such a theme wound its way through Borges' earlier, labyrinthine short stories. His present pieces are simpler and gloomier. They are filled with a sense of death, of inexorably passing time. But there is always relief in an image, as in a visit...