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...much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, one French cartoonist drew some observers in front of a hut festooned with severed limbs, exclaiming, "What fine models for Rodin!" Presumably this lopsided equation of the fictive violence of art with the real violence of history is meant to hover, in quotes, above Kitaj's nude; but it seems very contrived...
...they huddled in serious conversation, Mortada's face went white. Soon others learned that something terrible had occurred in Cairo and scurried to back rooms to hover around radios. By then, Radio Cairo was broadcasting only music...
...Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot fish, grunts and blow fish swim in a traffic jam of color through the coral reef. Below, sea turtles and rays settle into the simulated depths, sometimes with understandable uneasiness, as eight species of shark hover near...
...summer, Ronald Reagan promised that, as President, he would see to it that interest rates came down and stayed down. His pledge is already something of an embarrassment around the White House. Instead of declining, as Administration economic officials have been predicting all spring, interest rates have continued to hover at near record levels, weakening businesses, slowing growth and making a mockery of economic and budgetary planning by companies large and small alike...
After all, newspapers are everyone else's data base. They man the courtrooms, roam government's many corridors, endure hours of legislative watch, hover around police stations, pursue nature's floods and disasters. A latticework of such reporting all around the world is gathered by a jointly owned collective, the Associated Press, and its rival United Press International. At a relentless high-speed rate of 1,200 words a minute, 24 hours a day, the wire services supply the printed press, give radio disc jockeys their "rip and read" news, and alert television producers where to dispatch...