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Only seconds after he was sworn in as a new Congressman, a slender, intense figure appeared at his elbow on the House floor. "Hello," the man said, "I'm Dick Nixon." The two would be elbow to elbow 25 years later, in strained silence as they walked to the helicopter that took the disgraced Nixon out of power and elevated Ford to the presidency...
Imagine, for a moment, the raw sensuality of the female foot. Slender and smooth, its gentle curves both entice and arouse. To slide one's fingers across the firm, rounded heel and up into that ticklish valley of ecstasy--perfection! And who can resist the ten most erogenous zones of the female form: the toes, each a powder keg of sexual tension, each begging to be fondled, caressed, sucked and stroked until...
Parker's best tricks are her acts of levitation. The ICA is filled with the slender threads by which Parker hangs these pieces in a permanent state of suspense. In a piece called Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), the charred remains of a London factory fire are hung a foot above ground by barely visible metal wires. The lumps of blackened charcoal, some suspended from their center of mass, some askew, are arranged with the larger pieces on the bottom, getting smaller towards the top. The living fire resides in incinerated stasis; the figurative and literal, the pun and the sculptural...
...Winston Churchill scorned him as a half-naked fakir stirring up sedition. His generation knew him as a radical political agitator; ours shrugs off a holy man with romantic notions of a pure, pre-industrial life. There is no either-or. The saint and the politician inhabited the same slender frame, each nourishing the other. His struggle for a nation's rights was one and the same with his struggle for individual salvation...
...called orthodoxy. However, they have shed no direct light on Jesus. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, discovered by Egyptian farmers in 1945, also proved of interest chiefly to students of the swarm of theologies that proliferated in early Christianity. The chance that they contain reliable historical information about Jesus is slender, though they hint tantalizingly that Jesus may have been more liberal in his views of women and sexuality than later church fathers allowed...