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...under his skin," said one aide. "It annoyed him to tears." The more he thought about it, the more he considered resigning. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield advised him "to roll with the punches and do what the rest of us do with criticism: try to add another layer of skin." But before one had a chance to grow, Kissinger read the adverse newspaper editorials badgering him to come clean on the wiretaps. Within hours of his departure with Nixon for the Middle East, he sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee requesting a hearing on his role...
...storm built slowly, ominously. From the Gulf of Mexico, huge masses of warm, moist air moved northward to ward the center of the continent. From the West, a threatening layer of cooler, drier air seeped eastward toward the Appalachians, sliding under the moist air. As the two layers converged in an uneasy mixture, tremendous turbulence developed. In the roiling atmosphere, embryo funnels of spinning air formed, dissolved and reformed-a telltale sign that the tornado season had arrived...
...painting that epitomizes what he meant. It is not a figure but a still life: one solitary apple on a small sideboard, painted in 1937. The color is hardly color at all - a muddy brownish gray, smeared on the canvas with what seems to have been great effort, layer over in tractable layer. The fruit appeals to nothing but the sense of sight. It is inedible, untouchably distant, dense and gray as a little cannon ball, and so irreducible in its compactness that it could no longer be the object of appetite...
Missouri's sprawling state bureaucracy consists of 87 departments and commissions that have grown up, layer upon layer, under the long Democratic rule. Instead of ousting faithful bureaucrats held over from previous administrations, many Governors simply created new agencies for their supporters...
...drawings are at least 1,000 years old, the work of a sophisticated pre-Inca people who survived with the help of elaborate irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...