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...everyone together in some way. Indeed, when Deeds seems to resolve things at the end, we are almost surprised to be reminded that Sam's search was meant to have an end: the moving study of relationships and dealings across the years is captivating enough without an overt conclusion...
...narrow room lined with video monitors showing black and white images of people struggling to speak through bound mouths. Muffled groans surround the viewer in the darkness. The "message" here, at least the one stated by curator Marilyn A. Zeitlin as "the frustration and vanity of communication," seems simplistically overt. But the images of the faces themselves are so interesting, so cragged with subtle shades of dark and light, depth and surface, that their collective, somewhat pat "meaning" does a disservice to their visual complexity. There is also a certain ludicrousness to a message of "non-communication" being communicated...
...meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American society today is the result of hundreds of years of interaction between individuals of very different backgrounds, and if modern scholarship ignores the contributions of any group because of subtle or overt prejudice, then this intellectual rift must be fixed...
...Saudis' problem has been to arrange an abdication that does not look like one, since an overt abdication could be destabilizing. The solution is to send Fahd off to permanent convalescence at his summer palace in Marbella, Spain. When Fahd is out of the country, Abdullah acts as regent. "What we are seeing," says a diplomat, "are the last days of King Fahd." Says another: "You can assume that if he winds up in Marbella, he is not going back to Saudi Arabia. It will be the Saudi way of handling the fact that Fahd is no longer...
...election could be a disaster for Russia, the world and Clinton. It would inevitably touch off Republican charges of "losing Russia." Yet what could Clinton do to help President Boris Yeltsin, who is still in a tight race with communist Gennadi Zyuganov? Not much. Clinton had to avoid any overt meddling in the election. He nonetheless missed no opportunity to demonstrate that Russia under Yeltsin is still a member of the Big Powers Club, contrary to communist accusations that Yeltsin has reduced the country from superpower to international beggar...