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...first, the distress call seemed routine. The Soviet oceanographic vessel Zarya asked permission to enter Norwegian waters, claiming engine problems. Later the captain added the information that the ship's hull was leaking. But when a Norwegian naval officer and an engine expert clambered on board, they found no signs of water or of mechanical trouble. Instead, they glimpsed an enormous amount of sophisticated electronic gear. Local authorities ordered the boat out of Norwegian territory. Once in international waters, the Zarya turned on a miraculous burst of speed...
Surely (since what else is a reunion for?) these aging children, most of them, were looking to make up for lost time as their vessel labored up the river into dark ness only to come home to Kittanning in darkness still...
...voyage, but some soon began complaining that their cabins were half-painted, had no beds or showers and were inhabited by roaches. Some toilets were clogged, while others would not stop running. One of the ship's pools remained empty for two days; the other, deep inside the vessel, could be reached only by clambering over piles of garbage and dirty laundry. Sales agents had overbooked the cruise, and tour officials herded all the waiting passengers on board, hoping somehow to accommodate them. But there were 150 more passengers than available cabins. Some vacationers had to bed down...
...continental shelf, making the Aegean an exclusively Greek preserve. The Turks claim that the continental shelf of the Anatolian mainland bestows about half of the Aegean on Turkey. Two years ago, the countries came to the brink of war after Turkey sent an oil-exploration vessel around the area to establish Turkish rights. Meanwhile, both countries still maintain troops in a state of near-combat readiness around the disputed waters...
Miro has written, too, of the artist as a vessel: "Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin to paint, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself or suggests itself under my brush." This consciousness of his artistic role is completely at variance with the aesthetics of bourgeois art that Rene Magritte and Jean Scutenaire decried for lending art the characteristics of a superior activity, despite its removal from the real-life concerns and activity of most people. They criticized bourgeois individualism in art because "the middle-class artis claimsto express elevated sentiments relevant only...