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Grachev seemed fully aware of the military's plight only two months ago when he warned the Russian parliament that "no army in the world is in such a poor state as ours." It was a sin, he said, to keep it "half-starved and destitute." That was no exaggeration. Thousands of troops who were pulled back from the far reaches of the Soviet empire are living in barracks and with relatives in Russia because there is no housing for them. Large-unit field exercises have not been held since 1992. Russian pilots fly only an hour...
...dream in which he experienced a religious vision. "It was like a born-again thing," recalls a close associate. "He felt this music was way too dark and said if he died, he didn't want this being the last thing representing him." So instead, Prince released Lovesexy, a sin-and-redemption song cycle in which he placed God and sex on equal footing...
...could seem hackneyed in this post-Kinsey day and age. However, in spite of modern omniscience and in spite (or because) of the overwrought treatment it receives in the film, the relationship convinces. Pauline writes in her diary that now she understands "the joy of this thing called sin," and after the bathtub scenes and experiences in "The Fourth World," you may find yourself understanding...
...game: 5-2, Poole adding a goal, Flinton an assist, Royal one more of each. That's 11 points in all for the troika, answered neither on the scoreboard nor in the sin bin by the Crimson...
...pressure of both mystery and reality that makes Poussin so unacademic. He was an idealist. The world he painted, in all its mythographic richness, was not fallen. Neither sin nor decay was part of it. The young man in The Inspiration of the Poet, circa 1631, glancing upward while the imperious hand of Apollo redirects his attention to the text in his hand and the muse Calliope gives him a level look of benign assessment, might as well be Poussin himself. The allegory unfolds in a luminous calm but is grounded by discreet observation: the relaxed pose of Apollo...