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More than anything else, Yitzhak Rabin's life can be seen as an object lesson in dugri. When Rabin spoke, whether he was being cold or sentimental, he said what he meant. He once expressed a wish that the Gaza Strip would simply drop into the sea and disappear. But he also possessed a simple, human eloquence. Signing the Oslo accords at the Washington ceremony, he addressed the Palestinians with the following words: "We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you--in dignity, in empathy...
Amis invented this type of sentence, an interior monologue in which wicked and decorous thoughts alternately keep bubbling up, striving for the mastery of an uneasy conscience. The object of this attention, of course, is a wife, a woman, and such moments of imaginary violence drew severe feminist criticism, particularly as they resonated throughout Amis' novels Jake's Thing (1978) and Stanley and the Women...
...Mallrats, Smith puts a clown face on the college-age glums. Life is awful, so let's go shopping, cruising, trashing. The movie's presiding goddess is a trash totem--famously troubled ex-teen Shannen Doherty as the primary lust object. A '50s teen pic for the '90s, Mallrats focuses on the attempts of Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) to win back their girlfriends on--eek!--a game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross...
...they would disappear. Lincoln told Sherman a story "about a man who declined a drink because he had taken a total-abstinence pledge and asked for lemonade instead. When a friend suggested that it would taste better with a little brandy in it, the man said he would not object if it could be added 'unbeknown...
...practice, this allows paintings or sculptures to be viewed in ways no conventional museum would attempt. Currently at the Sackler, Masterworks of East Asian Painting demonstrates one such type of unique execution by displaying seven centuries of painting developments together on the same walls. "We might juxtapose objects historically related over centuries and examine the connection," explains Curator of Paintings and Sculpture lvan Gaskell. "We're interested in the application of ideas to the object, in contingency, so that objects remain alive, so that they are deployed rather than simply existing...