Word: visits
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...flurry of prestidigitation that was defiant and seemingly conciliatory at the same time. He demanded an end to U.N. inspections and sanctions in six months, threatened again to shoot down the U-2 reconnaissance plane that periodically photographs his key installations and then invited foreign diplomats and scholars to visit his presidential palaces as "guests" (the same term he used for his hostages before the Gulf War). But of course, he added, the expert inspectors of the U.N. Special Commission must stay...
...makes it easier for them to stake their claims to sovereignty and security. With great flourishes last week, Baghdad said it was inviting diplomatic representatives from the 20 countries taking part in the Special Commission and five from each of the 15 members of the Security Council. They could visit the palaces and stay "a week, a month, to see the facts," said the Iraqi News Agency. Of course, sleight of hand followed. Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf quickly barred any of the U.N. inspectors from accepting the invitation. "Those sovereign sites," he said, "are from the very beginning...
Launching the Million Woman March of African Americans in Philadelphia with her familiar clenched-fist salute, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was, as usual, center stage on her recent visit to the U.S. But back home last week, the ex-wife of South Africa's President faced a less flattering limelight. It was her turn to go before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human-rights violations during the apartheid era, and the testimony there further clouded the reputation of the woman once called Mother of the Nation...
...Diebenkorn was raised in San Francisco and got his first art education there--a process interrupted by his enlistment in the Marine Corps. This, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, since he was posted to Quantico, Va., and while there was able regularly to visit Washington museums, especially the Phillips Collection. One painting there, in particular, got to him: Matisse's Studio, Quai St. Michel, 1916. Though Diebenkorn would continue to meditate on other works by Matisse (and Mondrian, and Cezanne, and Bonnard, and so on through a wide classical-modernist pantheon) for the rest...
...fictions in his time--about small-time crooks (American Buffalo), real-estate hustlers (Glengarry Glen Ross), conniving Hollywood producers (Speed-the-Plow). In The Old Neighborhood, which just opened on Broadway, he has turned inward. In three brief, tenuously related sketches, we watch as Bobby (Peter Riegert), on a visit to his hometown, has a series of encounters with friends and family: an old pal from the neighborhood; his sister Jolly and her taciturn husband; an ex-girlfriend. It's not hard to recognize Bobby as a stand-in for Mamet, the town as Chicago, where he grew...