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...videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched off, leaving dried Abstract Expressionist trickles...
Like "RoboCop" and "Basic Instinct," "Hard Target" went through the same tortuous wrangling with the MPAA ratings board; a prologue to the release of "naughty" films which became trite with the blatantly orchestrated flap over "Sliver." Reportedly, "Target" had to be whittled at seven times before it could earn an "R" rating...
...feet; she had pulled a flowered sun hat snugly on her head and thrown a new green canvas bag over an arm of her chair. She wore no jewelry. Nearby lay a copy of The Night Manager, John le Carre's new novel, closed on one dust-jacket flap at around page 300. Vacationing in Hawaii, just after her triumphant visit to Japan, just before a grueling few weeks in Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton might have been just another tourist...
Most nations admit they are interested in technical intelligence. "Today's espionage," said Claude Silberzahn, the head of the French foreign- intelligence agency DGSE who was forced out after the flap with the U.S., "is essentially economic, scientific, technological and financial...
...committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...