Word: various
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People have complained that your work is offensive. Some papers have refused to run various strips, and some people, like the Rev. Donald Wildmon, have demanded that you be fired for slandering Christians. What do such reactions tell you about your work...
...himself. An abridged version of his diaries will arrive in bookstores this month. In journal entries written between 1930 and 1948, Mencken emerges as a hypochondriac with an anti-Semitic streak. In one passage he noted that a house on his street had been bought by "some Jews . . . with various ratty tenants." In a segment that the editor omitted, Mencken referred to two Baltimore businessmen as "dreadful kikes...
...season when movies are ablaze with self-importance, urging us to contemplate, through various fictive metaphors, the great issues of our time. And, by the way, to spare some kindly thoughts for the high-mindedness of their makers and their worthiness for Oscar nominations...
...technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red) are more or less transparent to infrared light. By looking through these layers, art historians can catch glimpses of the artist's original handiwork: rough sketches, repaintings and the occasional erasure. Other techniques, notably X-ray analysis, had been used in the past. The major advantage of using a computer with...
...President may not know what to do with the military. For the past four years, Aquino has depended on the loyalty of Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos to keep the armed forces in line. But Ramos' response to every rebellion has been to patch up relations between the various military factions and restore the uneasy status quo between reformist officers and old-line, self-interested generals. Aquino can no longer afford that kind of detente. Moreover, it has not worked. If she cannot impose civilian authority on the armed forces, then her government may be sidelined into irrelevancy as rival military...