Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imperial China used to administer a punishment called death by a thousand cuts. Each slice in the prisoner's flesh was minor, but the overall effect was fatal. There are some similarities in the way the U.S.-China relationship is enduring a series of clashes and confrontations. Each one is relatively small, but taken together they threaten the viability of the Administration's policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing. President Clinton last week proposed an extension of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status for another year. Congress will soon take up the issue in what is expected...
...from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into two eggs. In Russian the word for eggs is also slang for testicles...
...turn and track their hunters, Davies-Jones realized with growing alarm, the tornado he had started out chasing was chasing him. No, this is not one of those scary scenes from the movie Twister, which opened in theaters across the country last week (see review). Rather, it is a slice of the real-life science that inspired Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg, creators of the dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park, to make the movie in the first place. For Davies-Jones is not some casual thrill seeker but a serious scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma...
...roughly a billion dollars a penny in annual revenue, a 50 cent gas tax would slice a quarter off our budget deficit by 2000, while still leaving prices 20% below their 1981 high and less than half what motorists abroad pay. The chief (and valid) objection to higher gas taxes is that they fall most heavily on those with less income. But relief for those at the bottom--say, by cuts in payroll taxes--could be enacted as well. The truth is that every tank of gas today contains fresh proof of the "consume now" ethic that pervades our culture...
Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...