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...irrelevant. These are hard times for popular protest. Hundreds of thousands of people, all carefully organized and cleverly costumed to create media impact, failed in their attempt to prevent the deployment of American missiles on European soil. The anti-nuclear energy movement in this country hasn't spread beyond college students and professional activists, despite the obvious appeal it might have for less-skilled laborers who stand to lose their jobs. Sure, part of this is attributable to the cultural antagonisms of liberal intellectuals and lower class workers. During the Vietnam War, for instance, polls showed that blue-collar Americans...
...yellow and lilac on the original white mass"). Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots of Van Gogh's spike line; another will suggest how Piet Mondrian's apple trees (and with them, his early sense...
...exception is Redgrave. Icy furies move inside this Olive: hatred of men, belief in ideals, repressed lesbian longings. She offers teasing glimpses of them all, but no naked displays. This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. And a performance one admires all the more because of the barren soil from which it springs...
...very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...with bromides to the effect that the people of Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." But his actions, contrary to his reassurances, have served merely to unsettle those hearts. Last May, after several Chinese officials had publicly declared that China would not station soldiers on Hong Kong soil, Deng suddenly summoned the Hong Kong press. After denouncing the claims of two of his associates as "hogwash," he instructed the astonished journalists, "You go and publish this bit of news. Troops will be stationed in Hong Kong. It is part of Chinese territory. Why shouldn't we station...