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...sense of intellectual decorum and poise that the well-born, French-reading illuminati of Madrid preferred the discourse of images to have. Goya was not good at optimistic allegory. His large painting of the adoption of the liberal constitution of 1812 -- the constitution as a maiden in white presented by Father Time while pretty Clio, the muse of history, takes notes -- is one of his few real pictorial failures...
...Harvard and Michigan State hockey teams meet for a rematch only to find that the Undergraduate Council has scheduled an Iron Maiden concert in Bright Arena for the same evening...
...plane, which will not make its maiden flight until early next year, was rolled out to a specially composed Stealth Fanfare last week at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The coming-out party was both a public relations move and a pre-emptive strike against defense-budget cutters in Congress. Conservative estimates place the price tag on a single B-2 at $500 million. That figure could rise to $850 million by 1995. The Air Force wants to build 132 of the bombers for about $70 billion...
Buran's triumphant maiden voyage came after several glitches in the Soviet space program. The first attempt to put the shuttle into orbit was scrubbed last month with only 51 seconds left in the countdown. Worse, a Soviet-Afghan crew was nearly lost in space last September due to a computer malfunction...
...ever, Sakharov's first concern was human rights. He used his maiden appearance in the West to press the case of political prisoner Vazif Meylanov, a mathematician jailed after demonstrating for Sakharov's freedom. "It is my duty now, at this moment, to remember this man and many others who remain in prison," said Sakharov. Nor has Sakharov given up criticizing his country's regime. Five days before leaving Moscow for the U.S., where he is visiting relatives in Massachusetts and attending a meeting in Washington of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, he warned that...