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Inside the museum, where the exhibit is supposed to be, not a thing is changed; all the paintings are in their usual places. A visitor looking for this temporary exhibit would be hardpressed to find anything which could qualify as "The Exhibit of Perfect," and would soon find himself turning over in his mind the vaguely amusing questions he might put to the guard: "Excuse me sir, but I can't find the perfect here. Could you lead me to the perfect?" Finally, the visitor would leave feeling mildly puzzled or self-consciously gullible or simply vexed at having wasted...
...grand old cast-iron, nickel-plated thrones made by the Emil J. Paidar Co. of Chicago. Paidar also made barber poles and, until it went out of business in the early '70s, was one of Marvy's last competitors. Before meeting Marvy, a visitor imagines someone like the last buffalo hunter, a badlands bad man left over from the century before, gloomily waiting for the great herds to come again. But Marvy sees himself as a man of modern commerce. Sounding imperial, he says, "We are barber-pole people. That's what we think about when...
...again that afternoon with their advisers present, then by themselves the next morning. The meetings, as Press Secretary Jody Powell observed, were "very warm," and at the state dinner held that night in his guest's honor, Carter himself jokingly alluded to the admiration he felt for his visitor. "I'm thankful one man is not running against me," the President said. "How would you like to run against Anwar Sadat...
...John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most...
...around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget...