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...fleeting moment in which people are caught unawares--arguments on the fire escape, a woman pegging out the wash, lovers furtively embracing on the tenement roof. And though his vision was less flamboyant than Henri's or Bellows', he clearly had a deep effect on younger painters like Reginald Marsh and Hopper. His moments of voyeuristic detachment were amplified in Hopper's glimpses of disconnected urban souls seen through windows. One wants to see more of Sloan; when will some American museum give him the retrospective he deserves...
...hurricane starts the scavengers crawling. Edie Marsh, sexy in her shoplifted wardrobe, has spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys...
...Zaire does not support a national theater, and cultural grants in Rwanda, even for victim art, may be assumed to be fairly small. No documentaries infected by liberal bias get aired on Tehran state television. Saddam Hussein's boys are not straining to underwrite feminist histories of, say, the Marsh Arabs of the Euphrates...
...fundamental truth of Christianity is shown not to be true. Because the concepts of heaven and hell and eternal life are based on the immateriality and indestructibility of the soul, the scientific demonstration of the material basis of consciousness would seem to mean the end of Christianity. PAUL B. MARSH Lansing, Michigan...
...Worby all along has had defenders who value what she brings to the state. "Like a bird,'' former Charleston Gazette columnist Don Marsh wrote in 1991, "she is too vivid; her color is too bright." Added a recent Gazette editorial: "In all her plumage, she's a conspicuous member of West Virginia's ornithology ... Undoubtedly, she will continue to draw barrages. But wouldn't it be dull without...