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...most priceless prose poems,"The Wolf and the Sheep," Herbert has the wolfexplain to the sheep that he is about to devourthat, "You have no idea how silly it is to be abad wolf. Were it not for Aesop, we would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves to the moral...
...with the whole world watching." Fifteen minutes or so before game time, "Mark would withdraw from the clubhouse horseplay and stare into his locker. You'd see him, and you'd know he was spacing out. It was not a good time to talk to him." McGwire would simply gaze ahead, concentrating on the game to come, lost in the intensity of his focus. During batting practice, with tens of thousands showing up two hours before game time simply to watch him propel rockets into the upper deck, he kept his calm. Dave McKay, the St. Louis first-base coach...
After an hour or so, Mittermeier returned from what must have been his hundredth climb up the Voltzberg to gaze at the rain forest. "How was it?" I asked him. "Incredible," he said...
...organized to complement Eric Rentschler's Weimar Cinema class (German 155). The works themselves are usually not beautiful. Karl Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying the clarity of appreciation. Like most of the other drawings and photographs exhibited at the Busch, The Schaefer Sisters...
...with impunity; that skinheads, rabbis and lawyers from the A.C.L.U. can grouse together affably in the greenroom about who ate up all the bagels before going out to scream at one another on a TV talk show. These people all know that what they share--the media's avid gaze--sets them apart from the multitudes it ignores while creating a bond among the favored that is impenetrable to the anonymous, and is, in various ways, dangerous to all concerned...