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...event, perhaps because we were outdoors, or because there was a guy playing jazz on an accordion, or because of the misspellings on the printed menu, or because the guests recited impromptu poetry, or because the Ghetto Gourmet's logo of a skull with chef's hat hung on a sheet, or maybe it was just because our host kept taking long hits off a joint...
...Mose T who became one of the leading figures in the Outsider Art, or self-taught, movement; in Montgomery, Ala. Tolliver began painting compulsively in the 1960s after an accident at a furniture factory left his legs crushed. His lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Smithsonian and New York City's American Folk Art Museum...
...journalist of the old school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes...
...even the horrific testimony of victims seemed to affect him. One after another, people who'd been tortured by Hussein's henchmen offered stories of victims being hung from their feet and given electric shocks.? In one session, Hussein nearly shouted down the first witness who appeared in court to detail the atrocities...
...will come out and crush Columbia.” While the Lions haven’t won a single Ivy game yet, every league game they have lost has only been by one goal. Columbia has yet to be crushed by an opponent—the Lions have hung around their Ivy foes, just seeming to always get the unlucky draw. While Columbia hasn’t yet won a league match, then, it cannot be said the Lions will be an easy match for the Crimson, as two of Columbia’s league games have gone into double...