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...politely--to breakfast. After a heavy night's imbibation, as I wheeze nauseously in bed, and fall onto the welcoming floor, a gigantic terror presents itself. The mirror is just over me. Inching towards it--steady as she goes - the possibilities for what I could look like flower. It's not just the issue of bruised eyes and a grassy verge of a mouth. A black, suppurating tumour may cascade from my forehead; my eyes could have multiplied; little horns might peep up through my rug; my nose could be replaced by a bluebery muffin. The final encounter with...
...stringy. One is left in no doubt that Ribera found them on the street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears trickle from his eyes. Touch, very movingly, is a blind man feeling out the broken nose of a classical marble head, which he can just apprehend by touch, while on the table in front...
...tomb of Aachen's cathedral. The community's 12-star flag flutters from public buildings in a town that was briefly, in the 9th century, the capital of a Holy Roman Empire that united Europe from Brittany to Bohemia. But today, as Germans' once overwhelming support for Maastricht ebbs, flower seller Barbel Krutt speaks for Aachen's townspeople: "You can send all the politicians to the moon: this treaty does not mean a thing to folks like...
True, many people have been duped into the belief that Alice in Chains is a band about flower children and peace, given the group's name and song titles and whatnot. A quick glance at the lyric sheet, however, should dispel such misinformed notions. Cantrell's style doesn't just dabble with abstracted misery; it takes us to higher planes of confusion about the vulgarities of life. Try these crowd-pleasing verses out at your next party: "I have never felt such frustration/ Or lack of self control/ I want you to kill me/ And dig me under, I want...
...families who have watched a child grow and flower, the effect is devastating. "At 15 my son returned to the day of his birth," says a father in Brook Park, Ohio. "He crawled on the floor, and his mother had to diaper him. He withdrew to his room and wouldn't come out except to eat. Once, his voices told him to grab a little girl in a store and undress her. Many times I saw my wife with bruises. I've learned a lot about schizophrenia since she died. I think living with my son killed...