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Although the organizers have miles to fill before they sleep, the project has already begun to evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping trout and thrashing bass, the Big Fish dominating the foreground, are a curious conjunction of the merely illustrative and the frenetically decorative. In his sober moods he was rarely off-key. His Adirondack paintings have the astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered...
Soviet-American summitry is a relatively new and curious phenomenon in the annals of diplomacy. It focuses on arms control, which deals with a symptom rather than with the underlying cause of the hostility between the two nations. Traditionally, rulers or their envoys have met to discuss more fundamental issues. For centuries they came together to reshape their alliances and discreetly sort out their spheres of influence. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a paradoxical and unprecedented position. Their irreconcilable differences prevent them from making real peace; nuclear weapons prevent them from making war. Partly for that reason...
...curious about what brought this flat-out invitation to meet now," says Reagan. "He's concerned about the summit, I think. He wants to be sure that we have a summit that will produce something...
Haste makes waste. Haste when the House and Senate are negotiating a catchall spending bill of half a trillion dollars for next year, as they were last week, also makes for some mighty curious appropriations of taxpayers' money. Among the more unusual...