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...hottest and sexiest creatures in youth culture today now loom eternal in heaven, purgatory and (most likely) the deadlier, diabolical realms down under. Think about it. What does become a legend most--Natalie Wood in blackglama mink or Natalie Wood in a shroud? And who would Harvard students most want to see gracing their dorm walls--Mel Gibson brandishing a laser gun or James Dean brandishing a cigarette? And what picture better represents mock-native cinematic sexuality than Marilyn Monroe struggling with her out-of-control white frock over a dark subway grid? Even Madonna's hairy armpits...
...fact, Iraq had already introduced an even deadlier scare: the use of chemical warfare against Iran. Last month Washington publicly condemned the use of mustard gas by Iraq against Iranians. Last week U.S. officials said they have evidence that Iraq is using nerve gas on the battlefield. A West German firm, officials said, has supplied Iraq with laboratory equipment that can produce the nerve gas. The Administration embargoed five chemical compounds essential in producing the gas from being shipped to either Iraq or Iran, but officials concede that most of the compounds are available on the world market. A State...
Which has proved deadlier in combat? The Sidewinder, easily. During the Viet Nam War, Sidewinders shot down their target 24% of the time, Sparrows only 8%. Improvements to both missiles do not seem to have changed their batting averages. Israeli officials have told Americans that Sidewinders killed far more of the 80-odd Arab jets downed over Lebanon last year than Sparrows did. One reason: most aerial duels are fought at less than the Sparrow's minimum effective range (which is secret). In a close-range dogfight, the Sparrow's great speed often causes it to zip right...
Well, up to a point. To suppose the work is only a satire on an obsolete propagandist style is to miss its deadlier thrust. What K & M are getting at is not just totalitarian art, but official art as such. Stalin and the Muses-showing Clio, muse of history, presenting a volume for revision to the mustachioed god in his transcendent white military greatcoat-is "objectively" a hilarious spoof, done in clumsily tight parody of the 17th century grand manner. But then, if these sleek pictorial tropes are I so absurd when lavished on Stalin, why should they...
Even though economic warfare has usually not been a useful weapon in diplomacy, especially in the short run, Britain is now in a particularly good position to wage it. Economic sanctions now, deftly managed, could, as the Observer of London said, turn out to be "deadlier than the navy...