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...calf. Screaming with pain, the man hopped wildly on one leg, trying to shake the cat off. The others also tried to grab Fluffy, but the agile cat ran out of the house and climbed onto his favorite branch of the magnolia tree. From this safe perch, Fluffy looked at us and mewed. The wounded man was almost demented. He dashed to the tree and shook it. Fluffy hopped up to a higher branch, ran onto the roof of my neighbor's house and disappeared into the night. One of the men said, ''You keep a wild animal...
...ages, comics art got into museums only when reflected in the work of an acceptable, "real" artist like Roy Lichtenstein. He, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and other so-called pop artists were not pop at all; they were commenting from on high, the familiar perch of the intellectual, when they deigned to use vulgar artifacts as the subjects of their paintings. This snobbery still vexes Spiegelman. "I have all sorts of issues with the idea that a Lichtenstein painting of a comic book panel is art but the original comic panel it draws on is not considered art," he told...
...Iraq and the mauling Republicans received in the midterm elections, the U.S. is no longer the all-powerful hegemony, the hyperpower, that it seemed to be after the end of the cold war. To some, the schadenfreude was too much to resist: "They've been knocked off their perch," said one Brit, with grim and evident satisfaction. But much more often, the relative decline of American power was discussed with a worried mien, one that recognized that, if the U.S. did not make things happen in the world, then nobody else would, either...
...individual who will aggressively and proactively address these challenges will likely not be an uncontroversial choice. The Faculty is set in its ways and content with its perch in the ivory tower so long as their personal fiefdoms are not intruded upon. Alumni are nostalgic for the way things used to be. And students—often the most discontented—will be alumni in less than four years and typically don’t feel the influence of Harvard’s president in the short term. An uncontroversial choice would be a prolific writer of open letters...
...number from Harvard’s home game—509—is any indication. Last season, without the services of their respective corps of elite players, both the Crimson and the Big Green slipped from their usual habitats in the top five of the national polls, a perch they have regained in 2007. Harvard was bounced from the NCAA Tournament in the opening round, while Dartmouth, after posting a losing record, didn’t even get a whiff of the national playoffs. It is simplistic to reduce the Ivy powerhouses’ recent reclamations to the return...