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...painted coach panels, from large allegorical paintings to banners for tourneys, costumes for masques, sets for the theater (which Alfonso delighted in) and perhaps the occasional crucifix or emblem of chastity for the ducal mistress's bedroom. Dosso had to second-guess the veering tastes of his boss--flatter him, keep him interested. And then there were the courtiers to deal with...
...have just changed my mind about the death penalty. I am no longer opposed to it. And I pray that Shepard's killers will receive it. As for the beyond-the-pale jokers of the far right who flatter themselves that they are closer to God than the rest of the world, their sentences are reserved for the Last Judgment. A surprise awaits them, for God loathes hubris. RICHARD OLNEY Sollies-Toucas, France...
...newsstands? Don't flatter yourself. On the other hand, in an age when anyone with a modem can publish a Web page accessible to all of planet Earth, who needs newsstands? You may not be a celebrity, and public interest in your sins may be meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with...
Gunesekera's milieu is that of young girls reading Father Brown mysteries under the mango trees, and his language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
...political culture in which telling the whole truth about small matters is simply one possible tactic among many. He is a master of the fudges, fibs, hedges, exaggerations and omissions that grease the wheels of public relations. Most pols will employ them now and then to various purposes--to flatter allies, condemn opponents, cast themselves in a happy light--and more often than not the public shrugs, when it notices...