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...knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip of the rain on Hannah's Jerusalem, and what the voice within her keeps repeating...
...standing on their heads and wiggling their rumps in an apparent gesture of good will. From Peking, however, came ominous reports that Milton and Matilda, the musk oxen that President Nixon presented to the Chinese, were not on exhibit at the Peking Zoo because they were suffering from postnasal drip and a skin condition that was causing them to shed their hair...
...People's Republic of China clearly won a battle of images in its first exchange of permanent representatives with the U.S. Installed in the Peking zoo were Milton and Matilda, two woebegone musk oxen that arrived with scraggly coats and postnasal drip brought on by the climate change and general cultural shock. Last week, the Chinese part of the exchange, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate...
...above me hit my head. With a stamping and slapping of the ground a black shape charged through the undergrowth ... I expected to be torn to pieces. I do not know how long I crouched there before I realized that everything was still and silent again, save for the drip-drip of the raindrops...
...meretricious that within a few days of its opening it had become the subject of appalled snickers along the art circuit." And in the 1950s, not even Newman's fellow artists liked his work much. His painting threatened them by contradicting the Abstract Expressionist orthodoxy of gesture, drip and "action...