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...woman who runs Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics and got a scholarship to take the course and then travel to the Philippines as an instructor, then to Singapore...
...seduced by salvage would have worn long, pointy sorcerers' hats and worried about perpetual-motion machines and the best way to turn lead into gold. Nowadays they call themselves scroungers and arrive for the weekly salvage ritual in white pickup trucks, wearing clothes suitable for labor in a wood lot. Many of them also wear Los Alamos National Laboratory security badges on their down vests and flannel shirts. Their reflexive tendency on being introduced, to reveal whether or not they have a Ph.D., hints that this is not just another junkyard...
...wood paneled and decorated with antique weapons, a fair number of which get used in the two and a half hours of mayhem. As Bruhl asks early on. "What's the point of owning a mace if you don't use it?" The mace and most of the swords, axes, knives and guns would make any collector proud, but one large cardboard-looking saber in the middle of the back wall stands...
Those last minutes in the solid wood boat approaching the port capital of St. George's were the most trying. Captain Alfred, who calls himself the "Big Fisherman," had argued against taking his 20-ft. vessel into the harbor directly under the guns of the People's Revolutionary Army's (P.R.A.) Fort Rupert. We had worried more about a shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios...
...duality was part of the ever active debate over what was true and what false in cubist representation, where fragments of the real world (including the news) combined with unreal space. To complicate things further, the man at the café-melting away, like the elusive Pimpernel, into the wood work-probably depicts Gris' favorite character pulp fiction. He was a supercrook named Fantómas, whose nefarious deeds were eagerly devoured by Picasso, Apollinaire and everyone in the cubist circle. Appearing and disappearing at will, frustrating the law at every turn, Fantómas was to cubism what...