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...logged by Mexican laborers using Japanese tools, under the direction of Swedes. The proceeds are expected to pay half of day-before- yesterday's interest on the National Debt." In this dark mood, Hartke admires a science fiction story in which the revered Kilgore Trout (we assume, though the finest of pulp writers for some reason is not identified), in a journal called Black Garterbelt, explains the meaning of life. Germs, it seems, are being toughened by higher beings for the rigors of space travel; and human society -- Mozart, mutant turtles and all -- has amounted to nothing more than...
Laurence Olivier OTHELLO. The acting demigod was by no means the first Caucasian to play the Moor of Venice, but this 1965 release proves that he was the finest of them...
This comes through very strongly in the work of the Catalan artist Joaquim Sunyer (1874-1956), chief painter in the Noucentista group, a circle of artists and writers who reacted against art nouveau in Barcelona after 1906. Sunyer's Pastoral, 1910-11, was owned by Joan Maragall, Catalonia's finest modernist poet, who wrote about it as a virtual icon of national identity: "Consider the woman in Sunyer's Pastoral -- she is the embodiment of the landscape; she . . . is not there by chance: she is destiny." It was out of that conservatism -- the cult of the parental farmhouse...
...more are planned. "Dumas is one of the brightest retailers in the world," says Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of the Neiman-Marcus stores. Marcus owns 175 Hermes silk ties, hand-screened and hand-hemmed at $95 each. "It is a status symbol," he admits. "But it is also the finest quality tie made anywhere...
...have put our emphasis on the college bound, who are 30% of our young people. We have the finest university system. We have public education at the elementary and secondary level that ranks below every industrial competitor we have in the world. Everybody knows what it takes to get into college. Has anybody ever told a teacher what it takes to be productive if you don't go to college? The answer is no. We have not dignified alternatives to college. We are the only country in the industrial world that says to 1 out of every...