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...Sharif might not have cost Bhutto so much support if her government had compiled a solid record of accomplishment during the past year. At first Bhutto complained that her government could not pass legislation because the upper house of parliament was almost entirely pro- I.D.A. But that excuse grew thin when the People's Party did not even try to introduce bills that might prove acceptable to all parties. Considering the extravagant promises of the party manifesto and Pakistan's abysmal poverty and appalling 77% illiteracy rate, there is little time to waste. To make matters worse, Bhutto has expended...
Small wonder Blades' detractors, perhaps a bit jealously, have accused him of spreading himself too thin. "It's not a problem because I'm doing things that I like," he says. "I know I can't be at two places at the same time...
...Pushkin in Russia and Alexandre Dumas in France boasted of their African ancestry; one cannot imagine an American writer or artist having done so. But the relative poverty of images of blacks in American painting was also largely caused by different conditions of work. Patronage in the U.S. was thin. Artists had to scramble for portrait commissions, which few blacks could afford to give them. But there were perfectly dignified, solid, objective portraits by white artists of black clients such as the Pennsylvania clergyman Absolom Jones by Raphaelle Peale before 1810, or Elisha Hammond's 1844 portrait of the young...
Worst and Best Brews. Lites were everywhere, but one unfortunate trend started with California's surfers, who for some reason favored a pale yellow liquid in a clear, long-neck bottle. Thin and acrid, Mexico's Corona Extra soared to second place among U.S. imports (after old favorite Heineken). What could connoisseurs do? Well, many of them reached for a real beer produced by one of America's feisty young microbreweries, from California's tangy Sierra Nevada to the malty Samuel Adams Boston Lager...