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...volatile are the thoughts and feelings Terkel assembles. This is understandable. Race itself is an irrational subject, which may be "the American obsession" but is not an American invention. The 3,000-year-old Rig-Veda tells of the Aryan god Indra's hatred for the black-skinned anasya. Han dynasty historians (right for the wrong reasons) believed yellow-haired, green-eyed people evolved from primates. The Babylonian Talmud attributes the blackness of Ham's descendants to Jehovah's curse...
Dershowitz is no stranger to han- dling high-profile criminal cases. Hissuccessful appeal of wealthy socialite Claus vonBulow's conviction on attempted murder charges wasthe subject of the film Reversal ofFortune. Dershowitz has also represented JimBakker and Leona Helmsley...
...addition, economic chaos has fostered a sell-anything-you-can-get-your- han ds-on mentality in the Soviet military. It is only too possible that some commanders could peddle tactical nuclear arms to foreign governments or even terrorist gangs. Even now, says Vladlen Sirotikin, a Soviet historian and political columnist, "give me a million bucks, and I'll have a nuclear-tipped missile stolen for you and delivered anyplace you want...
...generating a profit, Hirtle says, and he expects the University to respond with a better deal han in years past...
...time Seurat is thinking, editing, adjusting. Throughout his career, his efforts are directed to refracting what he sees through what he knows. He quotes Poussin, Ingres, classical marbles, Han figurines; the boy hollering in the water in Une Baignade, Asnieres was once a classical Triton blowing a conch. But the sources are perfectly absorbed in his pictorial intents. For this reason alone, Seurat was an artist of a kind unimaginable in our own fin de siecle, now that art education has been lobotomized by the excision of formal drawing and the study of prototypes...