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...work, the artist shows you both the underside of the tent and the view over its top. He reverses perspective, depicts the far end of a rug as wider than the near end. You are shown not what you expect to see, but what the artist wants...
...Formerly, among the nomads of Mali, a woman's job was to sit in her tent and demonstrate her husband's wealth through her great weight and inactivity," she said...
...real story last week was further evidence of a slow but sure retreat from the pro-life stance that has been official Republican policy for ten years. Look at the G.O.P. as a "big tent," said party chairman Lee Atwater. "Forget politics. Do and support what you truly, truly believe. We are an umbrella party." Anyone who thinks Atwater is free-lancing without higher approval has been smoking crack with Marion Barry...
Atwater's "big tent" talk and Stone's new PAC are just two manifestations of a long-term strategy. "It's like perestroika," says a Bush adviser. "It takes time and hard work to change positions previously carved in stone." In other words, concedes the G.O.P. strategist, "the party is going to have to be hit over the head in the 1990 elections. Our big winners will likely be those who are pro-choice, our big losers those who are pro-life. It will take the shock of '90 before a change can really be set in motion...
...fact, I had been wondering the same thing. What in the world was I doing there? The question came to my mind many times in that first week of classes last semester--as I adjusted to living in a tent, showering outdoors and attending lectures on a sand bank...