Reporting
… many people. Women fanned themselves with exhibition materials. Cuban artists who now lived in Mexico and New York … For the first time in the history of the biennial, a comprehensive listing of ancillary exhibits had been … say what we want to say. And I,” he added brightly, “am a Communist militant. Have been for fourteen years.” He had …
Essays
… ash, when famines swept the land and deforestation was so complete you couldn’t even warm your hands by a fire. The … force to keep inside? And then it got dark. And radio signals vanished. And even the monster jeeps I kept spotting, … a season, not an Eden. Misery awaited Floki: His animals died; Floki gave up. You can find trace of Floki in the menu …
… door rang out pretty regularly day and night, shaking the common wall between us but to celebrate other epiphanies; … that were supposed to blank out answers shouted from the audience? Dexter had been a founder of Consumer’s Union, a … a Rheingold. As I sipped the beer, I looked at the huge murals James Thurber had crayoned on the walls of the place. …
… the play is one of the most widely translated Greek tragedies. As a result readers come to Medea knowing in some detail what will happen. … Unlike other Greek tragedies there are no strong reversals and few surprises. When the play begins events have …
… springs from his recognition that he had, like Frenhofer, committed himself to an impossible ideal—what he called in a … flux. Cézanne’s conclusion is explicit in his watercolor studies of skulls. They represent mortality to him as to … in favor of the abstract whole. The chimney, like a tower, points like an arrow into the sky, but its base is curiously …
… She brought Maggie fresh hot tea in a thermos. “Emily’s coming to see you this afternoon” she said to Maggie one … your teeth, Sarah,” Maggie said, although Maggie had had false teeth forever, or so Sarah had believed when she … in a draft,” she said. Maggie’s third brother, Jimmy, had died of pleurisy at the age of ten, from standing at a …