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...George Bush in military fatigues waving an American flag while marching over a field of skulls. With no money from home, he worked at odd jobs and slept in a succession of offices and friends' apartments. But his real vocation was activism: he was part of a 60-person "torch force" that led demonstrators into battle with police by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails...
...image is far more melancholy and ambiguous than that: the Spanish conquistadors are presented as brutes, one flinging a baby from the temple top, another tearing loot from a corpse; and Leutze's intent to provoke pity for the Aztecs is summed up in an upside-down torch, nearly out, which lies on the steps in the foreground, an adaptation of the classic funerary image of the reversed torch of extinguished genius. Even mediocre artists like Leutze, it seems, can sometimes be a little more complex than their interpreters might wish...
...wonder what Foreman, Bjorn Borg, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nancy Lieberman Cline, John McEnroe, Jim Palmer, Mark Spitz and Jill Sterkel have in common. A reasonable answer might be they're nuts. They're all trying, or trying to try, or have recently tried, comebacks, holding high the torch for middle-aged wheezers everywhere...
Passing the Torch...
Colgate, which carried the ECAC torch all the way to the NCAA finals last year, has struggled in its version of the season-after. The loss of netminder Dave Gagnon to the Detroit Red Wings--where in his inaugural start he was victimized by Wayne Gretzky for The Great One's 700th career goal--has figured largely in the Red Raiders' slump...