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...informality that can make Aspin agreeable as a man also made him unsuitable as a front man. At congressional hearings he was apt to put his elbow on the table and cradle his chin in one hand. He can irritate colleagues by referring to them by their last name only, or sometimes just the first. Military brass were startled to hear Aspin refer to General Colin Powell at a briefing by saying "Colin will take care of that." A senior Administration official summed up the problem: "Lacks gravitas...
...personal life -- that all the models are people with some specific relation to the artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows, and bursting with life...
This is a direct challenge to the Harvard ground game, which racks up an average of 232 yards per game and turned the normally reliable Princeton ground defense suspect last week. Harvard is not as strong through the air--but Giardi's elbow problem has cleaned up somewhat and throwing the ball should be less of a problem today...
Some students in the class thought that the explosion was caused by the heat building up within a closed system. One student said the elbow joints connecting the flask to the collecting rod did not provide an outlet to release excess...
After the explosion, teaching fellows began collecting these elbow joints and one teaching fellow explained to stu- dents the minute difference between joints withand without outlets, students said...