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...left panel depicts a moment of revelation, the epiphany of a young career. The youth crowned like a king gazes through the thick black mullions of a window into a vision outside, of a blind organ-grinder making celestial music for a choir of angels. It is a version of the dream of unmediated childhood vision in the work of William Blake, "the noble English genius," as Beckmann called him, "a superterrestrial patriarch." It also represents the starting point of Beckmann's lifelong quest as a painter, his quest for the self, "the great veiled mystery of the world...
...least of those is MoneyGram's parent, First Data Corp., a big credit card-processing outfit that is the selling shareholder in the IPO. Last year First Data bought another data grinder, First Financial Management Corp., which just happened to own Western Union. The Federal Trade Commission took one look at the MoneyGram-Western Union union and said, Uh-uh. First Data would have to choose one and sell the other...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is nothing going on in the Balkans that is worth losing one American life over. I will never vote to send my neighbors' kids into that meat grinder...
...what did we students do? Get scurvy. For nine days, my vegetable intake consisted of the tomatoes on a Tommy's grinder. If I started to get rashes, I'd buy some orange juice...
Many of Lebed's government colleagues consider him a bull let loose in Kremlin corridors, and hoped he would fall flat when he undertook the thankless peace mission. He might yet, but if he can deliver a face-saving way out of the meat-grinder war, he will become a political figure of awesome proportions just as Yeltsin's health and strength are ebbing...