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Just after midnight on a hot, moonlit summer Tuesday, a National Park Service crew assembled, scrub brushes in hand. Its mission: to clean a year's worth of grime off the distinctive features of the 16th U.S. President. Once a year the 19-ft.-high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the heart of the Grecian-style memorial in Washington gets a thorough rubdown with special soap and natural- bristle brushes. Though Mr. Lincoln's baths are infrequent, their cost and duration are impressive. The twelve-hour cleaning set taxpayers back some...
...eager developers, Big Bend conjured up visions of condos and tennis courts: 64,000 acres of wetlands stretching along 60 miles of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hardwood hammocks, saw grass, palms, brackish scrub. Teeming with many exotic -- as well as threatened and endangered -- species such as alligators, manatees, green turtles and bald eagles. Probably the largest plot of undeveloped private property left in the East...
...train home on Wednesday. But pay in hand and spirits high, he went out for a final fling with a friend and wound up missing his connection. The next day, nursing a hangover, he hitched an automobile ride with a black driver. For 300 miles, he rode through the scrub veld of the western Transvaal, past parched cornfields and through conservative Afrikaner towns...
...still lifes makes them look as though they were descended from the nature sketches of Albrecht Durer. But in ambition they were more akin to the work of the European abstractionist painters. Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian wanted not only to wipe clean the slate of Western art but to scrub consciousness itself, clearing it of worldly distractions as a way of opening it up to the beyond. Though Weston kept some distance from the California versions of Theosophy and Zen, he too regarded his still lifes as more than just worthy forms. They were conduits of spirit: peppers...
...those of you not mathematically inclined, this leaves Alice with one day a week to a) commute; b) recuperate; or c) (the correct choice) carry on an additional flirtation in Paris with a plastic surgeon (Francois Perrot) to whom she's a scrub nurse and whom she eventually accompanies for a few days in Nice...