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...blue's about the best I've seen." Cooper explained. Spider nodded solemnly. Cooper talked like a beatnik as far as Spider could tell, but he tried to overlook it and passed him a panel from a case of Coke so that Cooper might autograph it. "Alan Cooper," he wrote. It wasn't as much a thrill for Spider as shaking Don Everly's hand at the Tea Party, but it was, nevertheless, exciting...
...other Asians are uneasy at the speed, the size and the cost of the invasion. They tend to play down or overlook Japan's growing aid to the area. Tokyo is paying out $1.5 billion in World War II reparations, has given $220 million to the Asian Development Bank, and has lent $100 million to the World Bank. Japan's foreign aid, most of which goes to other Asian countries, totals $1.4 billion this year, second only to the U.S.'s $1.8 billion. The figure that most concerns Asians, however, is Tokyo's huge trade balance...
Modest & Monumental. The show makes clear what many people overlook -that Black Africa developed highly organized cultures and a sophisticated naturalistic art long before the Europeans arrived. A few works survive from this era, among them the superb bronze head of a queen mother from 16th century Benin, whose kings ruled a large area of what is now southern Nigeria. There is also the portrait statue of King Bom Bosh, ruler of the Congolese kingdom of the Bakuba about 1650-1660. Most impressive of all is the famous Tada bronze from Nigeria, a relatively small (20 inches high) but monumental...
...overlook" in the garden there is a stand with a map of the battle area. Pushing a button starts a voice that explains that you cannot see most of the sites because they are in back of you. It also gives you the name of every commander at the battle and tells you where they all went. You are told far too much to understand anything, except the vague idea that farmers were shooting in the fields. (It is difficult to get a sense of the farmers. After all, they were revolutionaries-and the bourgeoisie...
...economic theatre" of the budget battle, the skeptics overlook some distinctions that are crucial to the issue. While metropolitan areas may be wealthy as a whole, this wealth is far from evenly distributed...