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...Palestinian uprising is now 18 months old. It is a stain on a country whose existence is grounded in protection against totalitarian abuse. If the case for "Rage" is right, then we could all learn something from the public viewing of the film...
...that taste changes; and an anthology of writings on Reni at the end of the catalog charts his fall. You see the first puff of feathers detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable...
There are no guarantees, however, and Alaskans are thinking of little besides the spill. Airline pilots are banking their planes to give passengers a view of the faint shadow of stain spreading over the sound. Flags in nearby fishing villages are flying at half-staff. And some fishermen are wearing black armbands and crying openly, an unusual display of emotion for men who pride themselves on their toughness and independence. Laments Cliff Davidson, a longshoreman and member of the state legislature: "It's all like a wake now. How many more things are going to die? How many more livelihoods...
...week later, the order led to the roundup and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II, an action that Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga calls the "one great blot on the Constitution." Last week the nation moved a step closer to expunging that stain. The Senate voted to give an apology and a tax-free payment of $20,000 to each of the 60,000 surviving internees. The bill must now go to the House, which has already passed a similar measure...
...yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow glowed like sunshine. Several other guests were in the room now, chatting away raucously, as if nothing dirty had ever happened in their midst. The journalist simply stared at the place where the mud had been...