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...subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
...shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical issues is likely to temper a more draconian response to Pakistan's less than cooperative rejoinder. But at the same time, the hope among U.S. officials is that Pakistan will come to grips with the necessity to calm legitimate fears in Washington that Pakistan's nuclear program might touch off a dangerous regional arms race...
...details of crucial meetings and conversations that took place while the scandal was breaking failed to sway some members of the committee. When Maine Senator George Mitchell, a Democrat, said he found some of the Attorney General's statements "very difficult to accept," Meese came close to losing his temper. "What I have told you is the absolute truth of what happened," he said, "and so if there's any question in your mind, I want to get that settled right now." Mitchell shrugged and retorted, "I just said it's hard to accept...
...Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked a Wimbledon official primly: "It was the first time anything like that has happened." Once dubbed the Australian McEnroe for his on-court temper tantrums, Cash appears to have mellowed since his girlfriend Norwegian Model Anne-Britt Kristiansen gave birth to their 14-month-old son Daniel. Cash, though, still gets faulted by feminists. Dismissing women's tennis as "junk," he told Woman's Own magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when...
Above all, the English prototypes were there to study, so that in the 18th century American furniture makers and metalworkers could achieve the freedom and finesse of detail, the robustness of design that come only from full historical awareness tempered by regional shop practice and local material. Thus they invented forms peculiar to America, like the deeply carved blockfront desk with shell motifs made by Townsend and Goddard in Newport, R.I. But American neoclassical "constitutional" furniture radiates a sense of lightness and straightforwardness; it rejects excess decor as a sign of cultural effeminacy. The rococo did not suit the democratic...