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Pehaps the most curious desire of many American liberals has been to negotiate with the Sandinista regime at all costs; without a matching concern for the outcome of any such talks or the welfare of the Central American people. It seems that Americans have forgotten that the original 1979 Nicaraguan revolution against the rightly-hated Somoza regime was broadly-based. Its leadership reflected this pluralism. The Carter Administration aided the ruling junta because it wanted to help such a multifaceted uprising...
...basically go into them asking questions that I'm curious about," Nesson said, adding that much of his enjoyment in moderating the shows came from the panelists' surprising or unusual statements...
...enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...
Gauguin's stay in Tahiti and the Marquesas from 1891 to 1903 is by now one of the soap operas of art history. Yet the curious fact, as Varnedoe points out in a brilliant catalog essay, was that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When...
...like a lot of people, I love a good campaign. For one thing, It's often the last time you realize that you actually elect politicians into officer. For another, It's good, wholesome, guiltless fun. And a lot of Council candidates run truly entertaining campaigns, Curious to discover the nature of political propaganda, Harvard-style, I made a survey the other night. Here are some totally subjective awards...