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...curators, Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with the help of Nicole Parmantier and other art historians, have condensed the existing scholarship on Watteau, together with a great deal of their own, into a catalogue that now becomes a standard work. It shows no trace of the puffy garnish of superlatives considered obligatory for blockbuster shows in U.S. museums. The authors discriminate severely: "The execution lacks energy and seems pasty," runs the note on one painting from the Hermitage in Leningrad. "The figures are unsteady, the faces have no character or charm...
...church in St. Andrews, Scotland. Said Pastor William Henney as the service started: "We give a special welcome to Jim Nelson, who starts a probationary period with us. We wish him a happy time among us." Clergy Candidate Nelson, clad in black gown and clerical collar, showed barely a trace of nervousness as he began his duties by reading the Scripture lessons from Luke 12 and Acts...
...with lawyers, with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays...
...pulled out worn snapshots, while others brandished framed glossies. The haphazard gallery of photographs symbolized one of the nastiest legacies of Lebanon's nine years of civil war. During the spasms of bloodletting, which primarily pitted Muslim against Christian, as many as 5,000 people disappeared without a trace. Most were taken by rival militias in the perennial quest for revenge or as hostages for the return of members of the abductors' own sect. What makes the mournful protests so poignant is that of the thousands kidnapped, only about 200 are thought to be alive. Many Beirutis remember...
...argue forcefully for free choice in abortion, rights for homosexuals and aid to fatherless families without pretending that the issues here are merely clinical, aesthetic or statistical. They are moral too. But to make, or even follow, moral arguments, we need language that has not yet obliterated any trace of distinctions...