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Paradoxically, many of Weil’s paintings draw from the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, where God demands Abraham to sacrifice his son. The ram motif becomes a representation of Isaac. Weil’s subject matter confronts rather than soothes, demanding questions of a God that requires sacrifice...
...Abraham and Isaac traces back to the early 1970s, when Weil’s only son was killed by a tractor. Shaped by major events of war and loss, many of his images display a need for answers despite his asserted atheism. The painting titled “The Ram in the Thicket” shows a ram walking heedlessly into a thicket that will ultimately lead to its destruction. The bright colors present a false facade of serenity. Happy-faced yellows and sea green create a lovely effect while obscuring the underlying tensions within the subject matter...
...Similar contrasts can be found in Weil’s other paintings. “Memories of a Sacrifice” shows the skull of a ram over bound branches. The bright oranges and reds again obscure the underlying anxiety of the painting. Although the ram is given for sacrifice, the viewer is aware of Weil’s bitter confrontation—Can we really escape the ram’s fate in the face of God’s demands...
...third, consecutive errors charged to junior shortstop Mark Mager gave the Rams first and third with two outs. When URI third baseman Daniel Batz attempted to steal, O’Donnell’s throw sailed past second base and into the outfield to plate another Ram. The three-error inning was by far the worst fielding frame for Harvard this year...
...Lott - and Bush - have the $60 billion and the $1.6 trillion back where they want them: together. And the ability of Republicans to ram Bush's back-loaded tax cut through gives them the upper hand in dictating what gets into voters' wallets this year - and what they can demand from Democrats as the price of a crowd-pleasing 2001 rebate...