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...hope was endlessly disappointed, but the allure of California never diminished (at least in the eyes of outsiders). Its early 20th century images are full of it, whether in a massive pair of strawberries, ca. 1910, on a railroad flatcar, a view of sublimely twisted eucalypts framing the far sky near Carmel, or in one of Gottardo Piazzoni's classical views that translates the sea pines of his ancestral Italy to the edge of the Pacific...
That ambivalence has been reflected in a lively U.S. debate about whether or not the country can endorse the policy of blasting apart the skyborne narcodistribution system that sends pilots in small planes into Andean skies day after day. The argument against the policy, first raised in the early 1990s, was simple: it violated a fundamental precept of U.S. law enforcement, that cops never shoot to kill unless lives are in danger. Since both the U.S. military and the State Department felt bound by Supreme Court rulings that it is unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes...
...everyday scene, like a cook weighing flour in a kitchen. Not many women had baubles like these to gloat over. The clincher to its meaning hangs on the wall behind her: a Last Judgment scene, with the dead resurrecting under the presence of God in the sky. Their souls, the Bible says, will be weighed in the balance, that archetypal symbol of judgment whose tiny relative is held by the woman Vermeer has painted. As it is on earth, Vermeer insists, so it will be in heaven. But he's no spokesman for holy poverty. He is too much...
...Long ago, Charles Lindbergh embodied the chivalric attraction of flight - the lone eagle, soaring without boundaries in the purity of the upper air: "O, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/ and climbed the sky on laughter-silvered wings." The aviation industry, with a sort of corrupt nostalgia, still uses rhetoric about "the freedom to fly." But Lindbergh ultimately became profoundly disgusted with the industry that he had pioneered. He ended life regarding air travel as mere squalor and aviation in general as one of the world's serious environmental problems...
...cause, then they need to make it worth our while. Start with a nightly fireworks display—and not just a few cheesy firecrackers, sparklers or flares to suggest a one-time stunt. I’m talking a spectacular, impossible-to-miss fireworks extravaganza in the night sky every single evening—like Disney World! (Popcorn and hotdog stands are optional, but would be a nice touch). Even more importantly, the PSLM needs its own set of cheerleaders. Five booty-licious babes who will wave their pom-poms and form pretty pyramids in front of Mass Hall...