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...countries is more than the sum of its parts. It is a matter of cumulative exposure to the unknown and the unpredictable. To be successful, a trip abroad takes work, adaptability and patience, all very American characteristics. Americans may in fact be the world's most successful travelers, seldom-in the 1980s at least-evincing the faults of isolation, but showing an openness to experience at all levels. Consciously or not, knowledge is what they bring back along with the Koda-chromes and fishermen's sweaters: knowledge and the overriding memories of good times. As one Rome-based...
...places like the Louvre; there local police have even enlisted American tourists to act as decoys. And travelers protest as bitterly as ever about the all too many Parisian waiters who cling to their historic tradition of rudeness, slovenliness and occasional dishonesty. (But this is a Paris phenomenon. Americans seldom complain of the service in the rest of France...
...McMullan seldom produced results from either his community or his own staff by asking politely. Miami Police Chief Kenneth Harms, who has battled with McMullan over the causes of Miami's recurrent racial disturbances, police brutality and civilian review issues, does not regret McMullan's departure. Says he: "It will be like missing a sore tooth." Despite the paper's editorial excellence and its emphasis on local community reporting, many Miamians resent the Herald's power and tone of parental authority, often viewing it as an extension of McMullan's own abrasive personality...
...swelling market for these volumes has been caused by the bewildering proliferation of programs and by the point-of-sales difference between the traditional book business and the software industry. Books, which seldom cost more than $25, can be thumbed through before purchase. Software, with prices ranging from $50 to $500, cannot be readily examined. There may be as many as 40,000 software items on the market, a figure that is expected to double in a year, and stores do not have sufficient space or staff to demonstrate all of the competing brands. Says Peter McWilliams, author...
...style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another woman with the same first name, Cecilia Gallerani, the model for Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. If one could not deduce from his work that Holbein...