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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...globe, rendering one seaport scene roughly every two weeks and sending each painting to Paris, where a craftsman turns the artwork into a jigsaw puzzle. From 1955 to 1975, Bartlebooth, back in his apartment, solves each puzzle and then has the reassembled watercolor shipped to its place of origin, where it is erased. The beauty of Bartlebooth's life's work is its rigorous uselessness: "starting from nothing, passing through precise operations on finished objects, Bartlebooth would end up with nothing...
...that this was as it should be. Apres nous le deluge, after all, so why wear clothes that'll only get soaked and have to be dry-cleaned by non taxpaying illegal aliens, many of them belonging to racial minorities that are tyrannical Communistic majorities in their countries of origin...
Flynn's South Boston origin was seen as a liability in his first campaign, when he won a close race against Melvin H. King, who would have been the first Black elected Mayor of Boston. But in this year's preliminary elections, Flynn's highest victory margins were in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, predominantly Black areas of the city where Tierney has campaigned very little...
...start with some history. The ancient pagans of Ireland and England--not pagans as in the cannibals of Borneo, but simply non-Christians who worshipped nature--threw big parties every year on the day of Samhain, or "Summer's End." These were the first Hallowe'ens, according to The Origin of Festivals and Feasts by Jean Harrowven...
Shultz acknowledged it would be difficult to enforce the U.S. embargo, since the origin of oil on world markets is hard to trace. But, he said, "while Iran is conducting the war (with Iraq) and conducting terrorism, we shouldn't be buying things from them to the tune we are.... We feel it's important to lay down our marker...