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...fearsome as a Pauline Bunyan, Lillian made headlines in World War I when she crossbred a Rhode Island Red, a White Leghorn and an Andalusian Blue to produce a red-white-and-blue chicken-the Bird Americana-as she called it, which she proposed as the new national emblem. By the time of the next World War, Lillian was convinced that the Communists had driven her poor daughter crazy. And so, in 1944, she declared Frances insane and had her locked up at the Western State Hospital at Steilacoom, Wash...
...Italian police effort for its "speed and precision," then added, "When you are on the receiving end of prayers, you sure as hell can feel it." He also presented Judith with a belated Christmas gift: a gold chain with a pendant of the Lion of St. Mark, his headquarters emblem...
...does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano. The body image is confirmed particularly in a work like...
...hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after the stylized eagle on the Gestapo emblem. Silhouettes of crows are popping up around Warsaw, and swastikas are being drawn on the frosty windows of the capital's overcrowded buses...
...economic and social model, Communism would have long since been massively reformed if not discarded in Poland, as well as in many other countries where it prevails today. But the Soviet Union will not, if it can help it, let that happen. Wherever Communism is an emblem and instrument of Soviet power, even potentially, its preservation by force becomes an imperative of Soviet policy. So the struggle continues, both within the Communist world and between East and West, and it may escalate dangerously in the decades ahead. -By Strobe Talbott. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof Moscow and Richard Hornik, with other...