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...long narrative poem with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting...
...Charles Krauthammer (not exactly a flaming liberal himself) wrote, "[Buchanan's] technique is to convey raw prejudice to his followers, who understand his code, than go on respectable media [and now to Harvard], smile and pretend he never meant it. His trademark is the wink. The wink is interpreted by his friends in mainstream media as 'I'm fooling the mob.' It is understood by the mob as 'I'm fooling the pointy-heads...
...blamed the shortfall on a one-time confluence of factors, from a jump in the price of raw materials like pulp and oil to a delay in savings from a sweeping reorganization. "I see this as an aberration, and it will never happen again," CEO Durk Jager vowed. The Street's response, he said, was "not rational behavior...
...rush to sign when your own Senate won't even ratify it?'" Nonetheless, both sides are expected to sign on at some point in the future, and Washington also wants to draw them into discussions on an international treaty ending the production of the fissile material that provides the raw material of nuclear weapons. India is likely to gladly accept a role in shaping such international nuclear treaties and engage in dialogue with Washington on managing its weapons of mass destruction. After all, New Delhi justifies going nuclear as a way to claim geopolitical respect in a world where...
...wrestling is more about huge audiences than high art. So when World Wrestling Federation chairman VINCE MCMAHON pulled the plug on commercials for a controversial wrestling documentary that had been scheduled to air during UPN's SmackDown! and USA Network's Sunday Night Heat and Raw Is War, the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy Beyond the Mat, which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt...