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Inspiration is a rare and flighty bird. Most of us never catch a glimpse of it. Very occasionally it settles down helpfully in the corner, cawing advice to artists as they pile up those bodies of work on which their hopes of immortality rest. More usually--and this was the case with Arthur Miller--it touches down briefly, then darts away. The artist may catch tantalizing sight of the creature as he walks on through the woods, but it never again perches long on his shoulder...
Frustrations boiled over as the second frame wound down, when a shoving match evolved into an all-out melee at the Union end of the ice. Players scuffled all around Mayotte’s goalmouth, and after several minutes of untangling the pile of bodies, when the referees had broke up the dozen or so skaters, the ice was strewn with broken sticks and lost gloves...
Ryan decides to send a message, a "show of force," as he calls it. He instructs his engineers to pile the weapons caches in the front yard of House 71. "We got all this stuff in his house, I don't see any reason why we can't blow it up," Ryan says. His Estonian counterpart chuckles. "I don't mind; it's not my house," he says. By day's end, the message has been delivered repeatedly. Coalition troops destroy two vehicles and another house in acts of retaliation. At nightfall the battalion returns to its base, having uprooted...
...make them look older). And make sure the colors haven't run into the carpet fringe - a sure sign of chemical dyes and modern manufacture. Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny - lightly greased from the wool's natural lanolin and a good indication of how well the carpet will...
...Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny?lightly greased from the wool's natural lanolin and a good indication of how well the carpet will age. "Do this in front of the shopkeeper," says Tawab, "and he will start bringing out his best pieces...