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...Arafat so reluctant? Although in the past he has shown no concern for Israeli lives, it is unlikely that Arafat would so effectively thwart the goal of Palestinian independence in order to enjoy the sight of Israel's suffering. It seems his motive is far more political: Arafat does not want to alienate Hamas supporters in the self-rule areas...
Just the other day I caught sight of the Au Bon Pain Man, a figure who brought me much embarrassment and pain in my first-year. He stands in front of Au Bon Pain and hands flyers out to pedestrians, (not to be confused with Bank Man, who stands outside of Cambridge Savings Bank and attempts to shove flyers into people's noses...
...assume that not everything that has been kept out of sight is a masterpiece -- but a lot of things on both sides must be, since they were not chosen at random. How much could the financially strapped Hermitage reap from a royalty on the tickets, catalog sales, replicas and other spin-offs? One thing is certain: kept unseen, in the basements, such treasures profit no one and are a liability to both sides...
...because the meat industry doesn't have poultry's clout," says a USDA official.) Simply put, the slaughtering process in which washing is the integral component merely removes the visible fecal matter while forcing harmful bacteria into the chicken's skin and body cavity -- and therefore out of the sight of inspectors who supposedly guarantee the product's wholesomeness. In a typical plant, three inspectors work a processing line, each examining 30 birds a minute, or one every two seconds...
...sight of all these orts and fragments in Twombly's pictures seems to have convinced his more ardent admirers that he's a classicist, saturated in the myths and literature of the ancient Mediterranean, exuding them from every pictorial pore. All he has to do is scrawl a wobbly triumph of galatea or et in arcadia ego on a canvas, and suddenly he's up there with Roberto Calasso, if not Edward Gibbon. When an audience that has lost all touch with the classical background once considered indispensable in education sees virgil written in a picture, it accepts...