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...they never decay into nostalgia. Schwitters was a lyrical genius, a Persian miniaturist of the modern city street, confecting icons of junk under the eye of strict formal abstraction. One would expect the number of small pieces in this show to be, in the end, fatiguing; but it is not, thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name...
...every reason to share Assad's concern over the fundamentalist Shi'ites' growing power. A permanently radicalized Lebanon would doubtless try to sow subversion among moderate Arab states throughout the Persian Gulf, many of them U.S. allies and oil suppliers...
...then it might consider what. Beirut airport is a hijacker haven, offering provisions, protection, reinforcements and television cameras. Yet bombing the airport would be a clumsy blow, an act of war against Lebanon that asks killing innocents. An air strike on Kharg Island, Iran's oil port in the Persian Gulf, is tempting to some hawks, but it would only martyr Khomeini and further inflame his followers...
...less ambiguous. Suwar al Dahab, 51, lost no time in pledging that he would maintain Nimeiri's pro-Western stance. That would allow strategically important Sudan, which is regarded by the U.S. as an important staging area for possible military operations in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, to continue receiving its allotted U.S. aid of about $260 million this year, more than any other African country except Egypt. At the same time, however, Suwar al Dahab promised to try to improve relations with two meddlesome neighbors, Libya and Ethiopia. As if hoping to enlist the new regime...
...Polo originated in the Himalayas but became known as the sport of Persian kings," explained Charles L. Grandpierre '86, co-founder of the club and 1981 French National Champion. Farman-Farma added that it was common for Afghan of Pakistani tribes to play with animal skulls-needless to say those game were rough. When the British colonized the Middle East and India, they brought polo with them and made it the exclusive domain of the moneyed aristocracy, he said...