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...than 20 years, because my abhorrence of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime far exceeded any disquiet I felt about the plotting of the Bush Administration's neoconservatives. Maybe we liberals need to "blink" less and reflect more. David Smith Bournemouth, England The Foxhunting Ban In Verbatim, you quoted Nick Onslow, spokesman for the East Kent Hunt, about the last legal foxhunt before Britain's ban on hunting with dogs took effect [Feb. 28]. Onslow said, "It's a very emotional day. There are people who are in distress, but underlying that is anger. We are going to beat the government...
...DIED, GORDON ONSLOW FORD, 90, last surviving member of the Surrealist school of painters; in Inverness, California. The British-born painter studied in Paris during the 1930s, where he met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who introduced him to the Surrealist group lead by André Breton...
...limitless. "These guys haven't invented anything, they've just discovered an image that's salable, and they pump the market until they can't sell any more," says Herbert Palmer, owner of a gallery on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue that sells works by the respected contemporary abstractionists Gordon Onslow Ford and Choichi Ida at prices as high...
...course, there will be one or two rebels, and they will have a few procedural tricks up their sleeves to make things hard for Baroness Jay. Chief rabble rouser will be the seventh Earl of Onslow, who has declared, "I will have no hesitation in stamping my foot, throwing stones, making the government's life absolutely beastly by forcing divisions, by putting down motions on standing orders. What fun to go out as a hooligan." But even Onslow had the good sense to add, "Any house which has me in it needs its head examined...
...Conservatives rallied around their embattled Prime Minister, but the Tory backbenchers overwhelmingly demanded Brittan's ouster. They were particularly dismayed at the lack of political judgment he had displayed in the whole affair. Cranley Onslow, a leader of the group, met with Brittan and said, "You must know where your duty lies." The Minister then dutifully penned his resignation. Trumpeted the Times of London in a headline the following day: GOVERNMENT SHAKEN AT PUBLIC HUMILIATION...