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...Fahd proposed creating a Consultative Assembly of appointed members. He even built an imposing marble-and-glass chamber for it. But then he waffled on establishing the assembly, and now the building stands vacant on the grounds of the King's al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh. In any case, such a body would not satisfy the nascent band of dissenters. "That's merely a halfway house," says an intellectual...
There were, however, limits. Character, for Titian, was something mainly possessed by men. His women are by no means insipid or vacant, but they never have the singularity of being that leaps from his best male portraits. They are always cast in the passive voice: the madonnas with their union of tenderness, patrician grace and a certain country solidity, and the nymphs and goddesses (Venus especially), those Venetian odalisques whose weighty gold- pink flesh may not conform to modern conventions of beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place...
...days, it has a dingy look to it, heightened by the rows of vagrants that line the foyers of its shops and restaurants. Once a busy commercial center at the heart, the square has been hard-hit by a regional recession, and today many of its concrete storefronts lie vacant...
...disbanded last Sunday, but Brack, who is based in Washington and has shot for TIME for 25 years, is remaining in Saudi Arabia to work exclusively for us. That's good news for you and me, but as for Brack . . . he smiles every time he thinks about the vacant house on the Delaware shore where he was planning to spend his summer vacation. "I wanted sun and sand," he says, shrugging. Surveying the endless Saudi desert, he adds, "I'll pretend it's a very wide beach...
...lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...