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Doonesbury scribe Garry Trudeau and Bloom County maestro Berke Breathed could not be reached for comment. The two artists and satirists also are the recipients of journalism's second-highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize...
Unfortunately, American views of British art tend to echo the Chinese court scribe who is said to have remarked, in a letter to George III, that his Emperor was not unmindful of the "remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many wastes of sea." Modern British art, that is to say, tended toward the provincial, the marginal, the literary and the cute; it cultivated nuance and eccentricity at the expense of broader and grander pictorial concerns; it was anecdotal and too much tied to a fascination with human society -- little-island...
Ancient records indicate that the Chinese spotted five more supernovas in the next millennium, all in the Milky Way galaxy, and some of these starbursts were also noted by other cultures. The brilliant supernova of A.D. 1006 was seen and described by an Egyptian scribe named Ali ibn Ridwan and by European monks. The exploding star of 1181 was noted by the Japanese. But it is the supernova of July 4, 1054, which suddenly blazed in the constellation Taurus, near Orion, that is perhaps most significant to present-day astronomers. It exploded only about 6,000 light-years away...
...works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned a celebrated scribe named Yusuf Idris. But do not despair. As the book of tales declares, Allah "alone can distinguish between the true and the false...
...REPORTS, however, met with the White House. In fact, Times man Brinkley extracted some quotes from a senior Administration official" that must have made every news scribe in Washington simply sick with envy...