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...which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete and seas of mud. Protests a resident: "It's a place for animals, not human beings...
...light is now coming up in Cambridge, and by my calculations that means the sun is just going down in Mauritania. I wonder if she is thinking about home. It must seem very far away. I wonder if it seems strange to her as she lies in her mud hut in some little village as the sun finally settles, that somewhere thousands of miles across the sand and the ocean. New England is just waking up, and life goes on as usual...
...cold winds and predicted a warm economic climate just ahead. "It takes gumption to stick with longer-term solutions," he declared during a denunciation of the economic policies of past Democratic Administrations. "I don't want to go back. Do you?" Standing ankle-deep in the dark mud, about 4,000 farmers murmured no. Like the rest of the nation, even this partisan campaign crowd sounded slightly unsure about the political course the nation should take as the 1982 campaign headed into its final days...
...painting in it: straight and plate. The straight paintings-pigment on canvas-are the weaker and look like nth-generation abstract expressionism, which, in fact, they are. Their grid and curlicues come out of Matisse via Richard Diebenkorn, suffering indignities in translation: the drawing is sloppy, the color mud. There are also some steals from Robert Motherwell, in the form of maps of Europe with overpainting. Such work is homage rendered as cliché; but then Schnabel's reputation rests more on his plate paintings, layer on layer of broken crockery combined with things like antlers and twigs...
...again. Herzog stitles, all nuances. The ship is indeed dragged across the land with help him the Indians who, having stepped out from behind their ominuos drumbeat, trurn to be disappointingly sullen rather than mysterious. For at least a half hour they pull the creaking ship through the slimy mud. By the time Molly-Aida gets to the other side. we,ve seen so much sweat and struggle that the achievementseem the inevitable trumph of enough muscle, rather than the culmination of a mythic journey...