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...Parisian dramatist Jean Cocteau once characterized his fellow Frenchmen as a bunch of Italians in a bad mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset...
Slow though it may be in coming, a tilt to the right by the Rehnquist Court may emerge in some critical areas. A thumbnail preview...
...Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable are the fabrics, which are woven in eleven intricate designs, some resembling knotted macrame, others fine mesh...
Halfway through dinner he says, 'Are we going to get between the sheets or not?' Cute, huh? Lucky thing I brought my own car." She takes out a tube of Super Glue and, in a surrealistic gesture worthy of Buftuel, reattaches a thumbnail that is one and a half inches long...
...naked boy's legs as he dives-Eakins produced a mass of preparatory work, in many mediums. Convinced that the camera was truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade, or the reflection of a distant bush in a ripple of water. To get the muscles of horse and man right, he modeled them...