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...curtain, his gaze slightly raised like a Guido Reni saint as he toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...
According to eyewitnesses, when the first worshippers emerged after prayers and saw the dismantled speakers, they began to shout "God is great!" The cries incited the crowd of 2,000 leaving the mosque. Scores of men and boys began to pelt the security forces with stones and concrete chunks, hitting a soldier in the head. Says a policeman who was there: "When we saw the officer bleeding, we lost our minds and started shooting." The Palestinian Authority said that militants inside the mosque opened fire first, but eyewitnesses contradicted this claim. By all accounts, the crowd did torch two police...
Town-gown relations are far better today. In fact, undergraduates are now moving into the town that once wanted to pelt them with cannon-fire...
After police shot and killed a black man in the course of an arrest in Lexington, Kentucky, an angry crowd of black protesters took to downtown streets to overturn cars and pelt police and passersby with rocks and bottles. A quick show of force by police in riot gear contained the disturbance. Authorities later announced an fbi investigation into the shooting...
...decor of the White House. It is also the right of every self-respecting armchair decorator to criticize the First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic antique chair collapsed under him at the dining table...