Word: tente
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...handle fresh arrivals, international relief agencies have opened shelters in hotels, schools and public buildings. As these facilities rapidly fill up, tent cities are being planned. But as more of the Balkans is consumed by ethnic strife, safe havens may become harder to find. "Many of the Croats who sought shelter in Bosnia are now paying for it," says Foa. Last week 2,000 Bosnians who had fled to Belgrade were packed off by the Red Cross to Kosovo. These people may soon be on the move again: the territory's predominant Albanian population recently voted to secede from Serbia...
...platform plank stating that "the unborn child has a fundamental right to life" and calling for a human-life amendment that would ban abortion outright. When that position began to alienate women, particularly young suburban voters, the late G.O.P. chairman Lee Atwater urged the party to become a "big tent" able to accommodate both sides on the abortion debate. The party has been slow to follow his advice...
...adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. "Now I'm a woman Republican. Gender comes before party." That so many G.O.P. women agree with her could mean trouble under the big tent...
...palpable form of the Antique was stone. Sculpture afforded the model for painting, and Mantegna took its implications much further. Time and again, his paintings look like renderings of actual stone bas-reliefs, trompe l'oeil records of a scene carved by some imaginary dead hand. The figures and tent of Judith with the Head of Holofernes, circa 1495-1500, are painted with matte gray gouache on fine linen, but they seem at first glimpse to be actual stone. So little in art is new: what Mantegna was doing with this play of illusion was not so far from...
...result, the image hovers strangely between the inorganic, mineral fixity of stone and the fluid life of paint. The banner on its pole outside the tent and the whipping linear rhythms of Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your...