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...work together. Though Karami began seeking a solution in Parliament last week, so many of its 99 deputies refused to venture out in the line of fire that a 50-member quorum was never mustered. Karami then invited nine key factional leaders to join him in his office and lock themselves in until something had been hammered out. Only two accepted the invitation; in desperation Karami threatened to resign, was talked out of it and began calling in leaders for private sessions...
...occasion Caldwell will tell the last man out of the theater to lock her in, then gaze for hours at the stage (and boxes, which she regularly uses as an extension of the stage), trying to figure out a way to adjust that small rectangle to her large vision. She has been known to doze off-one time lying in a heap of curtains in an aisle -and be ready to go the next morning...
...although the students may want to sneak through the connecting doors in Lamont for a quick look at the library, they would be advised to wait until "sometime in mid-winter," because the doors will lock behind them, leaving them trapped and with nothing to read...
...curators of the Great American art boom (circa 1962-73), not one tried to give an account of what was being painted in Europe. The reason, as everyone "knew," was that European art no longer mattered. Paris was over; London, a village; only New York had a hammer lock on history. This eminently questionable belief, fathered by chauvinism and fed by the largest promotional apparatus in the history of art, lay at the root of American art politics in the '60s and formed the taste of a generation of museumgoers. Now the retreat is on. An exhibition called "European...
...really want to help the poor we must look at the facts. We must lock up the criminal. We must teach middle class morality and middle class work ethics and we must not expect to see a sudden change. It will be long and tedious. Liberal teaching to date has only caused problems. That is because Liberals want things as they should be according to our own high standard. Things are not as they should be and hitting the middle class in the face daily telling them to be ashamed for what they think and do will never...