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...sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake--a diet that either purges the digestive system or shuts it down...
...vivid example is The Music Lesson, circa 1662-64. The foreground is occupied by the elephantine bulk of a table draped in a Turkish carpet. Its thick folds of wool and the blue tracery on its shadowed flank, which looks dull in reproduction but fairly blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous...
...hope to present the wearing of clothes as art," said Olch, who appeared at the interview wearing brown corduroy pants, a pinstriped button-down shirt, a brown wool sweater and brown leather lace-up boots. "[HFA] wants to forget the traditional magazine format and present a unique approach...
...report issued this July, the Bank of England sifted the evidence and basically concluded that the young Singapore-based futures trader had acted alone, pulling the wool over his superiors' eyes until it was too late to save the bank. But now comes a report from Singapore investigators charging not only that Barings was negligent in its operations, but also that at least some of Leeson's bosses knew or suspected something was badly wrong before the sky fell...
...evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority. At the extreme is the countess: "She would ask them to bring her the mirror on the surface of a lake. She would ask them to open their chests and give her their hearts. She would ask them to make gold out of wool." Representing Middle Europe's recent past is bumbling communism, a repression that can't quite compare with centuries of feudalism. Codrescu sees evidence of its wicked spirit in neonationalism and resurgent fascism. Both movements are portrayed as metaphorical vampirism...