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...relentless lecturing on human-rights abuses in the U.S.S.R. sometimes jangled Soviet sensibilities. Reagan is defensive about that. "I did not want to kick anybody in the shins," he says. "I didn't think anything I said was too harsh...
French Academies of yesteryear have transformed into the harsh scrutiny of academics in today's literati scene. To be truly accepted, a writer must be intelligent, as well as amusing. What a writer needs for inclusion in the haughty ranks of literature is substance, not style. Otherwise, it's mere journalism for you--and the "j" is said with a spitting noise, a guttural indictment of inferiority. Wolfe's critics call him a mere chronicler of the times whose attention to detail has caught our fancy, but maybe not for long...
...invasion, but the Pentagon promptly and publicly ruled out the likelihood of combat. A reassured Noriega then easily put down a coup attempt by some PDF officers, and his troops once again employed tear gas, clubs and bird shot to end a relatively subdued round of street demonstrations. The harsh tactics, as well as Noriega's appeals to Panamanian nationalism, led to the rapid demoralization of a recently formed opposition group, the Civic Crusade...
...trial in Grahamstown lasted 78 days, and there were emotional pleas for mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered...
...artists after 1900, but to see it in the paint (and the wood) is another matter. Where does that peculiar, dense, purply brown shading of Picasso's early work come from but the bodies of Gauguin's Tahitians? Most of early Matisse seems present in the twining lines and harsh dissonances of red, yellow and green with which Gauguin pictured himself 15 years before in the sardonic Self-Portrait with Halo, 1889. Gauguin's sculpture and painting were basic to German expressionism, and even Henri Rousseau seems to have based his Sleeping Gypsy on Gauguin's goose-pimply image...