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...Insult to Motherhood...
...current troubles began. Now that light-skinned Pathan and Punjabi troops from the West rule by the gun, dark-skinned Bengali Moslems try to survive by informing on their equally dark-skinned Bengali Hindu neighbors. In India, meanwhile, the sight of a Hindu mob seeking vengeance for some Moslem insult is all too familiar. Such incidents have grown fairly frequent since 1964, when the theft of what was purported to be a sacred hair of Mohammed from a mosque in Kashmir sparked three months of turmoil throughout India and East Pakistan. Two years ago, 1,000 Indians were dead...
Nonetheless, a woman has certain advantages on the campaign trail. At every whistlestop, male candidates are expected to drink a mind-numbing local firewater known as aguardiente. To refuse is an insult, even though two or three shots are enough to end a politician's campaigning for the night. Maria Eugenia, by gently declining a drink, can squeeze in twice as many speeches as the average, reeling male...
...Saying there are only two types of Texans is like saying there are only two types of writers: pornographic and comic book. That article on the Texas State Fair [Nov. 1] was an insult-to Texas, yes; but mostly to you and your writer...
...from the broadly patterned interiors, still lifes and self-portraits of the early '90s, with their jewel color, through the series of big decorative murals that he painted on commission. "Decorative" was no insult to Vuillard. He thought decoration one of the higher functions of art, and he was right. Even in the stubbornly worked-out compositions of his later years, Vuillard described microcosms we can still enter-hospitable and mischievous, articulate in every detail, a long triumph of sensuous integration...