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...regenerate Self. It tries to break down the distinction between the temporal, individual identity of the viewer and the identity of the subject to be contemplated. Accordingly, time-space has a peculiar irrelevance in most Indian masterpieces. In the 18th century Rajput miniature of Krsna and Radha at a riverbank (fig. 1) the artist describes movement as a concrete quality which defines the objects rather than as an activity which the objects engage in. He abstracts a motion into a frozen form; the movement of the swirling water, for example, is captured as an object with no dimension in time...
...road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat? We study the riverbank and find a bush that wasn't there a week ago. Bushes don't grow that fast...
...University should not be pacified by the MDC's intention of eventually lighting up the entire riverbank. More spotlights could easily be attached to the existing poles, while it will take some time for the MDC to erect new poles on both sides of the river. And if none of the new poles are closer to the bridge than the ones constructed last week, the MDC's plan will do little to make the Weeks Bridge any safer...
Last week the Metropolitan District Commission constructed and put into operation three high-power electric lights along the banks of the Charles River between the Weeks Bridge and the Weld Boathouse. But the most dangerous part of the riverbank remains under-lit and inadequately patrolled...
Apparently the MDC would like to place similar lights along both banks of the river basin. If the MDC does succeed in lighting up the basin the obvious effect would be to deter crime--all sorts of crime--along the riverbank...