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...blunted by time or convention, as are some of the passages in Dickens that made our great-grandparents weep. A painting like Antigna's The Fire, 1850, looks stilted to us now, with its Raphaelesque pyramidal composition, its marmoreal smoothness, its "classicizing" of disaster. Yet to endow the sight of a wretched working family about to be burned for a landlord's greed with the scale and treatment of official history painting (it is about nine feet square) was in itself a political statement and, to its audience 130 years ago, a very moving...
State Rep. Mel King told the students they "were a great sight," adding "the issues are money and power." He urged them to go out and persuade their friends and their parents to use their votes to make the government "put money into human development...
...trying to drown the pain of too many lonely nights. Elaine decided to jump first. She dived into the current, came bobbing up out of instinct, and waved to the four on the bridge. Her hair swirled around the Ophelia in denim as the eddies carried her out of sight...
...Great Holy Day, the three elders of the network Sanhedrin came into the sight of the Lord God, and they begged for his blessing. And God said: "You do not deserve my blessing. For your local newscasters bray like the jackal in the field, and your prime-time soaps are as the balm of Gomorrah, and your sitcoms are in violation of all that is funny. And you, O elders of cathode, you lusteth after false profits." And the three elders saith unto the Lord God: "Forgive us, O Lord, but we must make offerings to the false idol Nielsen...
Cornell "loses sight that it is a university, not a coroporation," Gary S. Guzy, a student trustee, said at the rally, adding that "There hasn't been any open free exchange of ideas...