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Lately Perelman has been fighting back in other ways. Four years ago, scarcely a fortnight after he was declared a national resource in the New York Times Book Review, he declared a pox on New York City's street life and "twice breathed air," and announced that at the age of 69 he was exiling himself to London. Two years later Perelman was back, grumbling about "too much couth" and the lack of seeds in British rye bread...
...central fact of American existence. His vast figure compositions, creaking with every cliché of academic design, bulging with heroic prelapsarian muscle, were balm to a traumatized society. So was his belief in keeping art free of the French, or at any rate foreign, stylistic pox...
...refutes brilliantly Buckley's attempt to justify jailing narcotics users. Buckley argues that narcotics addiction is a contagious disease because most addicts acquire the habit by associating with other addicts. It is the government's responsibility, therefore, to incarcerate these addicts just as it would quarantine small pox carriers during a plague. But Friedman argues that this is an invalid parallel. Someone who catches a contagious disease is an unwilling victim. Someone who takes up dope after associating with users has done so because has has seen their lifestyle and chosen to accept it. He may have done so because...
...with stinging reeds those whom she finds. Her beatings cause the victims' skins to erupt in festering, angry pustules, their bodies to burn as if on fire. Shitala may be a myth, but her presence is all too real in India today: she is the goddess of small pox. In what some consider the worst epidemic of the century, the disease is now raging through several of the nation's states...
Nonetheless, the impact of the indictments is enormous. Scientists routinely use fetal tissues in essential studies of diseases ranging from chicken pox to cancer. Some-at least in Massachusetts-may now be reluctant to do any further work with fetal tissue...