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...fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold skin and the darting, vivid pat terns of the fabric. No artist of Pearlstein's generation has so brave ly confronted the basic issues of realism-how to hold the utmost concreteness of three-dimensional volume within the strongest two-dimensional pattern. The vigorously modeled limbs and trunks of his subjects create a pictorial energy that, like the black scaffolding of Kline's brush marks, burst through the edges...
Police chief Jerry V. Wilson had suspended the normal practice of making cut short arrest forums when street violence reached its height at about 9 a.m. Monday. The result was that over half of those arrested were not formal-ly charged and their names did not appear on police records...
Mike grabbed the book from my eager hands, panic now in his eyes. "Look," he shouted, his voice rising to break, oh so pain-ful-ly you almost felt guilty of some primeval injustice- you almost felt you were cheating Esau out of his damn birth-right. "Look," Mike shouted, "I've already had to fight off Garrett . . . and Scott...
Meanwhile Harvard has decided to supply Pennsylvania only with the names of scholarship students actual-ly dismissed from the College, as they would inform any scholarship agency to discontinue sending money for students no longer enrolled. While this does not comply with the interpretation of the law issued by the Pennsylvania State Board of Higher Education, Steiner said Harvard has not received any notice that its "approved" status is in jeopardy...
...Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus (2nd century A.D.). It is true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban...