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...agents called into the case soon found more cause for suspicion. Most of the breathing failures had occurred in the intensive-care unit during the afternoon shift. All of the victims there were being fed intravenously, but the drug could not have been mixed into the IV solutions; it would have become too diluted to work. The agents concluded that the intravenous flow had apparently been interrupted and Pavulon pumped directly into the feeding tubes...
...course, the face is familiar. Like the pink convexities of Rubens' child-wife Hélène Fourment, it is one of the obsessive human presences of 17th century painting: Philip IV of Spain, growing older in the long succession of Diego Velásquez's court portraits. This one was painted late in the monarch's life, around 1653. The King's features-the bulbed Habsburg lip, the forehead's waxy promontory, the thick ball of a chin, the upswept mustache that Salvador Dali would appropriate and vulgarize-must have been more familiar...
...would be pleasant but wildly optimistic to hope that every other picture in the exhibition in which this portrait of Philip IV may be seen-"The Golden Age of Spanish Painting," organized by the Prado's director, Xavier de Salas, at London's Royal Academy, through March 14-were at this august level...
...IV. Intervention and the Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy...
Iolanthe is as good as this Henry IV was bad, and a reviewer need not be in his dotage to rave about it. Increasingly, Iolanthe seems to be the favorite work of most Gilbert & Sullivan fanciers. Those who like the gentle, submarine beauty of Sullivan's music claim the best of that is here; others who prefer his loud, brass musical parodies consider the finest of them to be songs like "Bow, bow ye lower middle classes" and "When all night long a chap remains." Those who love the way Gilbert's characters take an inherently silly contradiction and straight...