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...through old copies of H Bomb, Wasserman introduced the magazine as a “great combination of dirty and smart.” She described the content “pretty all encompassing” with topics including science, medicine, and art. Slated for February were pieces about widow burning, sex in Classical societies, and a profile of a porn star...
...name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which he termed zips. His paitnings often had punning and provocative titles, like the series “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?” When he died in 1970, his widow Annalee Newman carefully stored the contents of his studio. Last January, the Barnett and Annalee Newman presented the materials to HUAM’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (CTSMA) along with his ephemera, a sizable gift of drawings and works on paper accessible through the Agnes Mongan...
...feel like Oliver Twist at the orphanage for even asking. And whenever I do, I brace myself for Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney to leap out of the lavatory and sing, "More?! Catch him! Snatch him! Hold him! Scold him! Pounce him! Trounce him! Pick him up and bounce...
Muneera Habib Mansoor was at a garden party in Kabul in 1997 when she stepped on a land mine. Her first leg was blown off, the second had to be amputated. Najmuddin Helal drove over a land mine in 1982 and lost both legs. Gulandam Karami, a widow with three children, stepped on one last year as she was taking her goats to pasture. She lost both legs at the hip, and is only just now learning to walk on prosthetics. She is progressing well, but worries that her new legs - shod in bright red Adidas - will not be able...
...waiting there, checking IDs. On Hebron Road, he flags down a cramped, Arabs-only bus because if he boarded one of the big, air-conditioned Israeli ones, passengers might think he was a suicide bomber. For their part, Israelis avoid the Arab side of Abu Tor. A Jewish-American widow who lives in the apartment building next door won't venture to the Arab-owned corner shop just 100 yds. (about 90 m) away, no matter how badly she needs a cigarette. And Abu Tor is no different from any other mixed neighborhood in the city; a survey last year...