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...term paradigm, however, is useful, like a Swiss Army Knife. The world, with a surreal, decisive crispness, has been sorting itself into categories of Old Paradigm and New Paradigm. The 1990s have become a transforming boundary between one age and another, between a scheme of things that has disintegrated and another that is taking shape. A millennium is coming, a cosmic divide. The 20th century is an almost extinct volcano; the 21st is an embryo...
Israeli security forces responded by doubling the number of roadblocks in Israel and the West Bank, searching Palestinian laborers with hand-held metal detectors and preventing many from entering Israel. In the wake of the stabbings, police in East Jerusalem are wearing knife-proof vests and patrolling Arab neighborhoods in teams. Defense Minister Moshe Arens hopes to appease an angry public by resuming the controversial deportation of suspected "ringleaders," and has asked government attorneys to streamline the necessary legal proceedings. Says Arens: "We will fight fire with fire...
...raising taxes. What Lafontaine underestimated was the depth of feeling on both sides of the old Iron Curtain in favor of merging the two Germanys -- and with that his strategy backfired. His effectiveness as a campaigner was also undermined by near tragedy: in April a deranged woman plunged a knife into his neck, just missing the carotid artery. The assassination attempt forced Lafontaine into a two-month convalescence; he abandoned shaking hands and signing autographs and gave his campaign speeches surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards...
...first otherworldly moment, when the skaters emerge in near darkness, forming abstract clusters and patterns to the accompaniment of a reverie about skating by the 19th century writer Alphonse de Lamartine, to the finale adapted from Carmen, in which a love-sick Boitano seemingly stabs Witt with a glinting knife, this is an ice show for thinking adults...
...reasons Turner would have approved. It made fewer demands on particularity. "There was no detail to vex the eye," Ryder wrote of one view of a lone tree in a field near Yarmouth, Mass. And so "I squeezed out big chunks of pure, moist color and taking my palette knife, I laid on blue, green, white and brown in great sweeping strokes . . . I saw that it was good and clean and strong. I saw nature springing into life upon my dead canvas. It was better than nature . . . I raced around the fields like a colt let loose, and literally bellowed...