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...will one day follow Hong Kong's example and rejoin the mainland. At present that seems highly unlikely. In a vituperative denunciation of the agreement, Nationalist China's Premier Yu Kuohwa offered sanctuary to the people of Hong Kong, who, he said, were being forced "into a slave system of Communist totalitarianism...
...much valued in our age," Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...
...puffy, smooth face and black button eyes of a rag doll left in grandma's attic), but befuddles her with his excesses at work and play. He fights with his possessive father (Roy Dotrice) and with the arbiters of art in Joseph's court. He is a slave to fashion and passion. His genius continues to consume him, like a virus he is unable or unwilling to shake; at the first performance of The Magic Flute he faints dead away at the piano. Portrait of the artist as a great man: while his wife and father bicker over...
Well, there was the Texas Kid, or Willard Watson, as he calls himself when he isn't working on his folk art. The Kid is 63, the grandson of a slave, been shot at nine times and married seven, once on a $100 bet. The Kid exhibits his art work on his front lawn. ("I used to have such a beautiful yard," said the wistful Mrs. Watson, who also used to have a nice piece of white rug before the Kid turned it into a hat:) The Kid makes found art. An aluminum shark, a tin cow, a pair...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...