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...nothing exceeds the painting and ceramics of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). The show includes examples of Ju porcelain, the rarest and most esteemed type of Chinese ceramic: a lotus bowl and a dish with bodies as thin as fingernails, the absolute simplicity of their form etherialized by their pale turquoise glaze, a color so subtle that it seems to be emitting light rather than reflecting...
...ordinary viewer. There could be no more vivid introduction to the upper reaches of Chinese art, and this takes hold right at the beginning. No matter how many ritual vessels from the late Shang dynasty (13th to 11th centuries B.C.) you may have seen, the memory of them will pale beside the massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like...
BEYOND THE PALE...
...Republicans is that the Buchanan cohort is large and desirable but maybe also impossible to accommodate. The issues--and the answers--that excite them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to declare Buchanan beyond the pale. William Bennett, the moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned with...
...acute about the elusive glamour of TV news. But Up Close and Personal is The Way We Were Hollywood version. Long before its ending (or rather, the endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between the Bosnia coverage and the story about the beauty queen who found...