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...waiting in line in the drugstore last month, I happened to glance at one of the display racks. By the flyswatters and bugsprays was a "Fly Gun." It looked like a little water gun, except it shot out a piece of plastic mesh attached to a rope. The idea, I guess, was to aim and fire at flying insects. At least, that's what the bright, flashy label seemed to suggest...
...James Holbs, 32; and David Gregory Surasky, 37, pleaded guilty to attempted escape. "It was ingenious," marvels Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Carruth. "That dental floss is strong. When it's braided, it's like nylon. If they had made it through the window and up the ladder, only a mesh screen stood between them and escape...
...What do you make of the current debate on American college campuses over "political correctness"? How does this mesh with democratic values...
...Annenberg paintings will mesh very well with the Met's holdings of 19th and early 20th century art, their foundations laid by the massive Havemeyer bequest of 1929 and reinforced by legacies from Stephen Clark, Sam Lewisohn and Robert Lehman. Annenberg's paintings include several Cezannes, most conspicuously the great 1902-06 panorama of Mont Sainte-Victoire, so different from the Met's more constricted version of the same subject. The collection includes works by Gauguin, Monet, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard, and a group of Monets from the 1870s -- a phase of the master's work not well represented...
...soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does not mesh with her reserved shyness...