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...motif embedded, as it were, in the landscape. Then he moved to New York and, as he puts it in the catalog, felt driven to paint "severe, invulnerable canvases, so I could be in this environment and not feel exposed. I spent five years making my paintings fortress-like...
...great ethics war in the nation's capital would be over, and all the scoundrels would be gone. "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," the West Point creed commands. But while Congress and the Administration struggle to clean up their act, the fortress on the Hudson seems set to lower its ethical guns ever so slightly...
...FACT The fortress held only seven prisoners...
...been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...