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Furtive infrequent forays into the Free State aside, the narrator spends most of his days in less resplendent parts of Northern Ireland than stream's edge. His is a rather drab, traditional world, where the Catholic Church is the final arbiter of any question, but where religious allegiance must be downplayed to avoid the attention of the Protestant authorities, who are especially vigilant in the years following World War II in which the book is set. Old grudges are fresh in this society, and memories of the not-so-distant rebellions are almost more vivid than the events of daily...
...hotel maid because she was constantly finding traces of meth in the bathrooms she cleaned. While on assignment for this story, TIME's writer and photographer watched from the lobby of their motel as a notorious Billings crank dealer, facing state charges at the time, received a steady stream of predawn customers in a room directly across the courtyard. ("You know he's in," the night clerk said, "when the phone lines all light up at once.") Approached for an interview about his trade, the wanted man, a tattooed giant on a bed surrounded by a clutch of weary party...
...Sistine Chapel, minutely scrutinizing the ceiling with opera glasses--and comatose versions of the Slaves and Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian Symbolism: Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Fernand Khnopff. Burne-Jones' morbid hypersensitivity was what made him a genuinely advanced figure in Symbolist eyes, and it is the trait that is bringing him back into popularity today, now that "heroic," confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate...
...browser is only the current example--albeit very attention getting--of the momentous legal principle that's at stake here. For beyond Explorer lies the endless stream of new technology products that will define the way we use tomorrow's computers--indeed, the way we live our very lives: voice and handwriting recognition. Banking and personal finance software. Real-time video and Internet television systems. Security and encryption programs. The Justice Department's view is that letting Microsoft integrate one new breakthrough after another into an OS that, at least for the foreseeable future, most of humanity will have little...
Camille Paglia, diva to aesthetes, gave her trademark stream-of-consciousness commentary on life, art and academia last night to a packed Emerson 105 lecture hall...