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...sight that greeted the curators of Milan's Gallery of Modern Art one morning last week looked like another ho-hum piece of conceptual art: 28 picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace...
...night hordes of cicadas hum an even note for a few minutes, stop abruptly as though gasping for breath, and then continue at the same pitch. I have never heard so many cicadas in a densely built area...
...this year deal, respectively, with Portugal and the literature of Spanish-speaking nations. Twenty years ago there were also six lower-level Humanities courses. But rarely if ever was the material covered in each limited to a single nation, culture or epoch. In one year alone, one could find Hum 1. Humanism in the West; Hum 2. Epic and the Novel; Hum 3. Crisis and the Individual i] In Drama and Biography, ii] In History and Fiction; Hum 4. Good and Evil in Western Literature; Hum 5. Ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought; and Hum...
...third album--Matching Tie and Handkerchief--is a let-down, although the Oscar Wilde party and Cheese Shop routines are excellent the first two times around and the Australian University philosophy department drinking song is something which, if you can't exactly dance to it, you can hum...
...about two seconds after Horowitz started the engine, there was a high pitched hum, a noise that ordinarily warns of an open door or unused seat belt. But all the doors were shut, and the belts were snapped into place Horowitz glanced at the dash. The hum stopped, and he drove...