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...sounds like none of these guys is much of a match, name-wise or money-wise, for Hillary With a Big Head Start, then you know how the Republican kingmakers feel. None of them are suggesting the nomination isn't still Rudy's to take, if he wants it, but not many of them are still counting on his having the stomach to get into what would be some Very Heavy Politics at this stage of his life...
...Buchloc is wise to point out, Watts is a sculptor of the surface, not of substance. It avoids linear meaning and sculptural formalism, displaying instead a fetishistic obsession with surface textures, transparency, translucency and reflection in works like "Three Clouds" (cubes patterned with cloud images), "Phono Records" (four LPs made of different materials) and, most impressively, his huge array of objects cast in a high-sheen chrome. The series of metallic West African votive dolls are craftily placed together in the penultimate room of the exhibition space, mimicking an ethnographic collection...
...cowardice: Khatami and his government feared riots would give the clergy the excuse it needs to declare Khatami incapable of maintaining national stability. The delicate give and take between the clerics and Khatami's government has been sorely tried since the February election. However, Khatami has been wise not to give the conservative clerics an excuse to seize power, despite their resistance to reform...
...does make you wonder, if the College Republicans are known as “the best party on campus,” what’s it like to party with the College Dems? And to borrow from “Saturday Night Live’s” wise Linda Richman, if the male contingent was neither chivalrous nor gracious, and this gathering was a sad excuse for a party, were these guys really Republicans? Discuss amongst yourselves...
...Prestige-wise, the Algonquin ranks second to the Somerset. Family bloodlines are not as consequential as the corporate credit lines. Capitalism proves itself in the Algonquin to be the great equalizer—in the early ’80s, the club’s membership was predominantly WASP, but today its thousand members reflect the growing racial diversity of the city’s corporate population...