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...read "Revenge of the whale hunters" [July 3]. Norway's flouting of the International Whaling Commission rules is particularly offensive because it bespeaks the whalers' pleasure in defying international opinion. This summer a group of tourists who had gone to Norway on a whale safari - to see and photograph the magnificent animals, not shoot them - were horrified to see a whale harpooned before their eyes. That bloody scene was followed by the grisly sight of the butchering of a carcass on another ship. The whalers were unrepentant. With its income from North Sea oil, Norway has no economic reason...
...giant photograph of Marilyn Monroe...
...sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: 'Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacañang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away...
...forth between the two cities many times. His knowledge of Lebanon's roads is matched only by his devotion to Hizballah. I would have trusted no other driver to bring me safely past the Israeli jets bombing our road. But fleeing Lebanon in a car decorated with the photograph of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah while listening to Manar radio's "support the resistance" call-in chat show gave new meaning to the word surreal...
...years Maar and Picasso spent together spanned the most tumultuous events of the century, and the passion of their liaison reflected them. The show captures it in detail, from courtship?Picasso's scrawling of her name over and over like a lovesick schoolboy, her coy note accompanying a photograph: "I found a portrait of myself and as I seem to remember you asked me for one, I am bringing it to you"? to the darker paintings that hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery...