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...venture out into the Afrikaners' rural platteland in the Transvaal or the Orange Free State, and apartheid looks alive and well. The Afrikaner driving his bakkie (pickup) rides alone in the front seat, while his black laborers squat in the back. Outside, some blacks sit eating bread and drinking milk they have bought from the nearby corner store, which has a counter for natives only. There is no obvious hostility here, just a sense that this is how things are, and always will be. As the Lord made them...
...HELL trying to get into Moscow the week of May 1. Inter-Republic Highway 1 was backed up all the way from the Ukraine to Red Square with vehicles of all makes and models--squat black station wagons filled with screaming ice-cream besmeared Young Pioneers, squat black sedans driven by provincial head men, squat black vans with airbrushed scenes of the steppe at sunset painted under round tinted portals, and even a few squat black bicycles weaving their way through the stalled traffic...
...torturous pregnancy of 35 years." His idea of public art, though secular and materialist, turned out to possess an immense sacerdotal gravity: it could stand in for religious icons. Even a relatively small easel painting like Flower Day, 1925, is consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian...
...assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle to teach him? "I'm a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani," Uncle shrugs as he evicts a poet from his squat. "And there's no such thing as race in the new enterprise culture...
There was just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used...