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...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...particular concern of the government is the mood of young Israeli Arabs, who are far more likely than their elders to identify with the anti-Zionist cause of the Palestinians. Having grown up in the Jewish state, many of these Arab youths speak fluent Hebrew, know the customs of the country and can easily be mistaken for Jews. If sufficient numbers of them were to join the terrorists?a realistic possibility should the causes of Arab unrest continue?Israel might well find itself combatting a war on its home front as well as a threat on its frontiers...
Predictably, a minimum requirement is good understanding of English. Malin states flatly that without "100 per cent conviction that a student is fluent in English we won't take...
World of Our Fathers does. A scholarly, fluent social history and a generous eulogy, the book spans nearly 100 years-from the exodus of Eastern Europe's Jews to the national acceptance of Woody Allen's gentle kvetching. The distance covered can be measured by a simple fact: even adjusted for inflation, the $33.50 it cost in 1903 for a steerage ticket from Bremen to New York would today scarcely cover a night on the town...
What the show demonstrates, however, is that art theory plus craft does not equal art. Each of Kupka's major works is hung so that it is prefaced by a group of his preparatory line and color studies. Too often, in the progression from the fluent immediacy of the crayon sketch to the lyrical color study to the painting, the art loses itself in an exercise, becomes stilted, studies. The line drawings for the "Girl with a Ball" (1907-8) reveal a great sensitivity to form, the color studies a highly developed Fauvist technique, in which an unrestricted palette expresses...