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One should think of Malevich as an iconmaker. He did. He was a very Russian Russian, a kind of starets, or holy man, filled with chiliastic dreams of the future of art, with an eye for promotion and a remarkable ability to get under the skin of other artists. His...
Simple arithmetic, if nothing else, gives African Americans a special stake in Operation Desert Storm: they make up 12% of the U.S. population, but represent nearly 25% of the fighting forces in the Persian Gulf. When the air war finally shifts to a grinding ground confrontation, therefore, they are likely...
Fight a defensive war. The aim would be to survive the American aerial blitz that would open the war and then force or lure the U.S. and its allies into a series of grinding, fearsomely bloody frontal assaults on heavily dug-in Iraqi positions -- a recrudescence, 75-odd years later...
Criminal Justice (HBO). Forest Whitaker, portraying a man accused (justly or unjustly? We never know) of slashing a hooker, struggles through the grinding, $ insensitive and frequently unfair legal process. TV's docket is jammed with courtroom dramas, but few have been as unsparing, or as moving.
To achieve the exacting specifications for the mirror, Perkin-Elmer used an optics template, a tubular array of smaller mirrors and lenses linked by connecting rods, to guide the grinding and polishing processes. When the Allen committee tested this template assembly, it found that there was a critical error of...