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...appears to be grim and strong-willed; in "Suleyman I with a View of Sueymaniye Mosque," the regent stands to the side of an arch which looks over the elaborate Mosque established by Suleyman for his people. Above the arch the name of Allah is inscribed in a testament to the fact that even the Western artists understood the Ottoman ruler's Islamic faith and rejection of personal credit for the glory of Constantinople and the vast empire...
...putting Owen Meany's dialogues in upper case? Irving got the idea from editions of the New Testament in which Jesus' utterances appear in red letters. And John Wheelwright's inability to forget the country of his birth? "Even if you try hard to look away from the U.S., it is there in your face like a flag...
...Styles range from garishly colored representational paintings to serene abstracts. The themes are the same ones that inspired a thousand Renaissance masterpieces: the Nativity, Madonna and Child, and gripping Bible stories. The most frequent subject is Christ's agony on the Cross, a visual testament to the Africans' own suffering. But Zairian Catholic sculptor Ndombasi Wuma, like many Protestants, refuses to depict the Crucifixion. Says he: "I believe in the risen Christ. Why should Christ be anguished...
...Testament to this evasive style in both diet as well as exercise is the newly developed and increasingly popular Electrical Muscular Stimulation devices. You go into some high tech chamber of fitness, lie down on a table and let some person in a white oufit slap rubber pads on vital muscular areas. Your muscles are then contracted by force of electrical impulses--no work, no sweat, only modern technology...
...mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last will and testament...