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...North Yemen, a convicted thief is required to pick up his chopped-off hand and raise it to his forehead in a salute to the presiding judge. That sort of thing is not done in more liberalized Muslim societies like Libya. Although Strongman Muammar Gaddafi imposed Koranic law in 1973, thieves are usually jailed instead of having their hands amputated. "We want these people to work," says a Libyan police official. "How can they work if we cut off their hands...
...Vivaldi concerto, the dance begins with a group of nine teachers walking with measured steps around center stage. They gesture, a hand to their forehead or cheek, as if perhaps they had lost something and did not know where to find it. A gang of kids in red T-shirts race through, and two boys execute a run and fall as if it were a Little League slide into home plate. After three sections of the kids, just as energetic, and the teachers, acting just as oddly as in this opening section, the work ends with the same boys' action...
Still stamped indelibly inside my forehead is what used to be on Navy ready-room walls-"Flying itself is not inherently dangerous, but like the sea, it is unmercifully unforgiving of human error...
...head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage is set for Casanova...
...assessment of American life. Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine leaves you with the feeling that if you were to suddenly say, "oh bullshit," and slam the book shut under Wolfe's nose, he would stand there dumb and amazed, little beads of fear and ignorance on his forehead, with no idea what you were talking about...