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...Inside Albright's guest house, they walked us down a long corridor blessed with a thick, hideous lime green carpet, marble columns and enormous wood doors to a foyer with a large window facing the lake. An enormous, awful mural depicted a stormy, frothing sea crashing against striated rocks while rotund seagulls winged overhead. The next 15 minutes passed amusingly, with the Great Leader's protocol entourage shifting us from one location then to another in the desperate hope of making themselves comfortable with our presence in his midst...
However, some of the pieces cultivate a much-needed passivity. Works that involve a surprising purity of color-huge saturated monochromatic paintings, such as Matt McClune's "Yellow Painting" and "White Painting," and Elsbeth Deser's approachable thick pink circles in "Three for Marianne Moore"-dilate attention and let beauty happen...
Five-year-old Nicholas R. Williams had slightly non-traditional ideas as well. "I like the shape. It's scary," he said as he pointed to a pumpkin with thick white scars crisscrossing its face...
...alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck, armed and at attention. But they missed the threat. Several small boats approached to assist in attaching the Cole's thick 5-in. lines to fixed buoys. At 12:15, a small harbor boat mingling among the moorers pulled alongside. Two men stood upright, and the boat exploded...
...thick, befuddling fog settled over the presidential campaign in Boston--a blanket of contradictory facts and assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does...