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Enrolling in summer school to boost one’s GPA is evidenced even more outside of the realm of challenging quantitative and language courses...
Everything Tuttle does seems to be asking the same questions: What's the smallest thing you can do in a picture or with an object and still lift it out of the realm of the ordinary? What's the smallest conceptual pressure that can be brought to bear on something and still have it qualify as art? Questions like those, and the humble, perishable works they can lead to, are enough to send some people running for the exits. And it's true that if all art were like Tuttle's, the art world would be a place too delectable...
Shocking and erotic were perhaps the two words dearest to the heart of Kenneth Tynan, the late English critic who conceived the idea for the show. "He said that we could write about anything in the world within the realm of sexuality," says Benton's Calcutta partner, David Newman. "The only other caveat he had was that our piece should have absolutely no redeeming social value...
...sort out their spheres of influence. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a paradoxical and unprecedented position. Their irreconcilable differences prevent them from making real peace; nuclear weapons prevent them from making war. Partly for that reason, arms control has emerged as the new coin of the realm, which the two sides use to measure progress toward a reduction in tension...
...bargain in Russian." He wound up with 10% off, leading some observers to note wryly that the hard-line U.S. negotiator had settled for less than many White House aides, who successfully haggled for as much as 20%. Some shrewd Icelanders showed their capitalistic acumen in another realm. Many of them rented their homes to news organizations desperate for accommodations. Arni Arnason, marketing director for Iceland Waters, his wife and two children moved out of their apartment a block from the press center and into his sister-in-law's home. "The women did all the business calculations and decided...