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...with its wavy battens of red-painted wood delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with...
...example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with such grave worldly consequences as The Case of the Strange Erasures...
...past years, freshmen have spent a lot of their time each spring figuring out what kind of class rank and concentration mix will most please the housing computer, going to interviews at Houses, and desperately trying to worm their way onto masters' choice lists...
Though his letters to Felice point shakily toward marriage, Kafka tells her only of his drawbacks. He claims to be weak and easily fatigued. He raises the suspicion of impotence: "You are a girl and want a man, not a flabby worm on the earth." He writes how he hates his civil service job at Prague's Workers' Accident Insurance Institute...
...rich are never more different from everyone else, as F. Scott Fitzgerald should have gone on to observe, than on the hateful ides of April. Most wage earners sweat over piles of canceled checks and interest statements just to worm their income total on Form 1040 backward by one bracket. But no self-respecting zillionaire would be caught within several lines of his real income before it has been vastly shaved by deductions, exemptions and exclusions...