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...AROUND the grassy field where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood is a monument to suffering great and small. Dozens of mourners congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green palm fronds carried...
...sale. A posthumous endorsement, to be sure; but relic hunting, by definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...
...sampling last fall by Republican pollster Linda DiVall revealed that 55% of G.O.P. voters do not trust their party to protect the environment, which prompted her to note that "our party is out of sync with mainstream American opinion." Suddenly "Senators and Congressmen who had a tin ear for the environment for the past three years are all over the issue," says Greg Whetstone of the Natural Resources Defense Council. So, too, is the Clinton Administration, after a brief hiatus in which the Democrats seemed willing to compromise with the antiregulatory zealots. (Clinton even signed a bill that...
...above all, an unsurpassed painter of light. He used the finest-ground colors, and he knew everything about glazing and underpainting. Those ultramarine blues, whites and lead-tin yellows make each image an epitome of a luminous world, a place not merely revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View...
DIED. RALPH BLANE, 81, Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose 500 titles include Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Meet Me in St. Louis; in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma...