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What the assassination ban amounts to in practice is a rule against killing people whose names you know. Killing anonymous soldiers or even civilians is merely war. C'est la guerre. Killing someone with a name attached is assassination. Not done, old chap...
...severe test for Picasso, whose Blue and Rose periods had been full of both. (On the other hand, both men's paintings and collages were seeded with puns, sly allusions and In jokes: when the fragmentary writing on one of Picasso's paintings from 1912 declares that "Notre Avenir est dans l'air ((Our Future is in the air))," one remembers that the two men liked to wear mechanics' clothes and compare themselves to the Wright brothers, who had given flying shows in Paris in 1908, and that Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbourg" -- Wilbur.) It is difficult, subtle...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard makes its big trip to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to face returning national champion Indiana at 3 p.m. (EST) Sunday...D'Onofrio put in what Getman called his "best performance in years" and continues to lead the Crimson scoring list with two goals and an assist for five points...The Crimson had 15 shots to Hartford...
...WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer...
DEAD MAN OUT (HBO, March 12, 10 p.m. EST). A prison psychiatrist (the ubiquitous Danny Glover) tries to help an incorrigible death-row inmate in this heavy-hitting drama...