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...Wound. The annual proliferation of decorations has led critics to observe that the government selects winners with the same skill as the blindfold player in a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. Periodic attempts to cut back on medal giving, however, have usually failed. True, the Revolution halted the French kings' practice of showering crosses, ribbons, stars, neckpieces, plaques and palms on court favorites, but not for long. Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just made the bizarre proposal that decorations awarded to those wounded in the revolutionary struggle be affixed to the exact area of the wound...
...student is the proverbial donkey," the section man said. "But Harvard offers too much carrot, and not enough stick...
Cranks and Bunkers. For this scenario, the Milan theft would be ideal -minor works by famous names, such as Cézanne's Thieves and the Donkey (see color page), that not one person in 10,000 would remember seeing on the museum wall years before. The chains of documentation for sales of art works are still remarkably weak. But sometimes a thief blunders and takes something unsalably famous. Siviero claims this is what happened in 1971, with the theft of Masaccio's Madonna with Child and Memling's Portrait of a Gentleman from Palazzo Vecchio...
...faculty member and an aspiring graduate student, urged them to save their own skins. Writing letters of retraction to the prestigious journals in which their work had appeared allowed plenty of leeway for casting in ferences and aspersions, and generally pinning the tail of a doomed career on the donkey (Rosenfeld). By immediately dropping all work on transfer factor, a controversial substance postulated in the 1950's for transfering immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another, Dressler and Potter might successfully sever themselves from the scandal...
...well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger. Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape. On the near side, Herblock 's State of the Union (Viking/Compass) presents the dean of contemporary cartoonists, Herbert Block, drawing...