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This was the first hint of any change of status in the neighborhood. For the past two decades, rents in the area had been depressed far below the market value, and the buildings had been allowed to fall into disrepair, out of simple neglect. Nobody cared. All that changed last month, as negotiations for sale began to intensify...
...plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called "Creative Humiliation Associates, Ltd.," which teaches clerks...
...dancers perform in the head's ugly proscenium of a mouth, a hint that Andersen felt that femininity itself was a trap. In one collage that he made for Agnete Lind, the child of Louise Lind, one of his early unrequited loves, a snake shares the page with one of Andersen's own book covers, a sketch of an audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became...
...moment, at least, the Soviets did next to nothing. While they did hint at concessions on less essential points, they stuck to their rigid old position that West Berlin must be regarded as a completely independent entity with no political ties to West Germany, whose $732 million in annual subsidies keep the city alive. The Soviets also insisted, among other things, that the U.S. must close down its radio station in West Berlin, and that the Western Allies must cease all intelligence-gathering operations there. Eventually, the Soviets want the Allies to withdraw from West Berlin, which would then become...
...They rioted about it for two days." But it got results, he said. M.I.T. "took the hint" and built several multi-story parking buildings; Harvard built...