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Chagall's was a textbook case of the way some artists receive their subject matter, their grammar of signs, in childhood. He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated...
...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...
Then I encountered another textbook case of anality, still in my very own bathroom. I was told that it was ludicrous to alternate the strokes with which I brought the razor across my face while shaving. For me, shaving does not require a chart with which to map out the attack on my five-o'clock shadow. How I shave depends on which hand I'm holding my beer with at the time. It depends on whether I've had too many beers. It depends on lots of things...
...York report comes at a time when researchers are trying to broaden the definition of the deadly syndrome to include all of the damage that can be caused by HIV infection, not just terminal AIDS. A textbook case of AIDS, involving Kaposi's sarcoma or Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, represents only the tip of the iceberg. Epidemiologists estimate that for every person with AIDS, there may be as many as ten more suffering from other illnesses caused by the virus. "The real disease starts when you become infected with HIV," says William Haseltine, chief of biochemical pharmacology at the Dana-Farber...
...full range of printing." Oh. But surely there are odd requests that break up the copy-shop monotony. "Sometimes people come in with Bibles." Is that illegal? "No, but I don't like to copy them. And some guy came in last week with a big, big textbook. I couldn't understand why he wanted it copied...