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...more month. Rather than being enchanted by the charm of Washington, D.C. or swept away in the chaos of New York City, I am spending my summer lost in Minnesota, bumming rides from other interns and scrambling to orientate myself in a city that I had visited a dozen times, but was never old enough to pay attention to. To my delight, Minneapolis-Saint Paul actually has more to offer than the Mall of America and Caribou Coffee (although I am still thoroughly excited by both...
...particular, certain, above all, that they were uncompromised, pure. In the mid-'70s, as prosperity finally ebbed and a generalized post-Vietnam enervation set in, much of rock turned merely slick. But along came a fresh cohort of bratty youngsters convinced of their own exceptional purity, and so a dozen years after the rock-'n'-roll youthquake, punk music appeared -- crude, youthful, exuberant, sullenly anarchic, objectionable to grownups. In the late '80s, as go-go prosperity ebbed and post-Reagan enervation set in, yet another raw, out-with-the-old rock paradigm arrived on schedule: the astringent musical and emotional...
...burning with neat little flames of patriotic ardor, somewhat resembling an anarchist's grenade about to go off. The letters that spell out SARD in Miro's loopy calligraphy refer, of course, to the traditional dance known as a sardana. Much barer works followed: the astonishing series of a dozen or so large landscapes that Miro produced in Montroig in 1926 and 1927, which include Dog Barking at the Moon, Animated Landscape and Landscape with Rabbit and Flower. It is as hard to account for the spell of the last of these as it is to evade...
...added, ''You want a revolution in Haiti. We are going to do it together.'' Namphy sought to disarm his critics by saying that national elections would be held in November 1987. After 28 years of Duvalier rule, Haiti is beset by an opposition that is splintered into two dozen or more parties that may decide to field presidential candidates. The situation was so volatile that nobody could possibly predict what Haiti might be like in 17 months' time. But for the moment, many Haitians believe the present junta has a better-than-even chance of lasting long enough to surrender...
...festivities. But the networks, including CNN, disagreed on what constituted news. ABC offered to share its airing of Ronald Reagan's remarks and the lighting of the statue and its torch; the rest of the President's activities, including his presentation of the Medal of Liberty to a dozen famous naturalized citizens, would be carried live only...