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Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 48, told of accompanying Hammadi to inspect the aircraft's exterior while it was on the tarmac in Algiers a few hours later. "Hammadi pointed to the door and the blood((stains)) running from the sill," said Zimmermann. "He made gestures to the pistol and himself . . . indicating that he was proud of his gun and himself for causing this." Hammadi repeated his denials that he had killed Stethem...
...parachutist, a train upside-down but still insouciantly chuffing. It owes a lot to his friend Robert Delaunay, who made abstractions of Paris windows. But the picture is plucked back from the analytic by its delicious strain of fantasy: a cat with a man's head serenading on the sill, a Janus head (Chagall himself, looking forward to modernism and back to the village?) displaying a heart on his hand. He was unquestionably a prince of tropes. "With Chagall alone," said Andre Breton, leader of the surrealists, "metaphor made its triumphant entry into modern painting." And though the procession that...
...Lovers, all the movement is in nature. Sunlight and a breeze rush in through the window; a leaf has just sailed past the sill and stops for a moment to have its picture taken. Helga is perched on a stool, her body erect, her fingers splayed under her haunches, her head averted toward her shadow on the wall, or toward an unseen lover. The work's title teases meaning out of enigma. Who are the lovers? Helga and the unseen figure? The model and her shadow? The artist and his model...
...City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from the East and Midwest who came to escape unemployment and cash in on the oil boom. Soldiers at For Sill in Law ford and students at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University in Still water, might also be able to push their counties to allow one of military men's and college students' favorite activities...
...Fort Sill, Okla...