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...Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text-is not the work of small talent; and there are few American portraits that display such a stoic and irreducible density, pore by pore, as the bald head of The Finn...
...hired by the Brown administration to keep the libraries open during the ongoing strike by nearly 60 library workers--is unable to answer a student's question about a reserve book and refers him elsewhere. The student walks into the reference room, where he dejectedly begins to pore through the card catalogue...
...what he meant by saying that the people of Eastern Europe are not under Soviet domination. "Mr. Ford is hiding from the American people," charged Carter. "I call upon the American people to force Ford to tell the truth." "My God," moaned one newsman, "Ford is bleeding from every pore and Carter is going after more blood...
...course, gauzy stories redolent of power struggles accompanied this reversal: you can still pore them out of newspapers. While the accounts may come across rather authoritatively in print, they are also apt to be vague, and scratching around in reference books often provides no historical clues to these struggles. Instead of offering a sturdy explanation, the journalists unendingly dissect the latest round of titular shuffling (the latest on Teng is still going strong after six months) until someone composes a new variation on the theme of personality clashes and shifts within the hierarchy. Personality and power, after all, make good...
...school she felt trapped. "My whole body felt like it was on fire, like every pore was open and there was glass tubing in it." She listened to Coltrane and Sinatra, and invented daydreams about Arthur Rimbaud, the French mystical poet, whose portrait reminded her of Dylan. For several years she was a Jehovah's Witness; later she dipped into Oriental religions. As a teenager, she drew furiously, then turned to calligraphy and finally to poetry. Says she: "Art takes the primitive and pumps it up real high from the heart to the intellect. Those who are illuminated...