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...correspondent found a safer way to report on the war. Radio Swaziland's Pheshaya Dube gave a number of "live" reports purporting to be from Baghdad. But when he was spotted in the nation's capital, Mbabane, he admitted that he had, um, been phoning in from a broom cupboard in his house...
...father had built a little cupboard for our records, and every night after dinner I would pick another symphony or tone poem to listen to. I would sit on the sofa in the living room and sometimes get up and conduct in my own way. I never had a baton. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was conducting. I had wanted to be a conductor since I started helping my father with his orchestra. When he was preparing at home for rehearsals, I would conduct and he would play the violin part...
...wallets in an attempt to win the love of little Johnny or little Jane. But what was left to purchase, with a 30-50 percent off sale well under way? The Sanrio stash had been raided by the Hello Kitty contingent, and the Blues Clues bandits had left the cupboard bare. In addition to Madeline’s entire wardrobe, glitzy Barbies, and assorted Harry Potter ogres, there was still a healthy supply of singing Kiss dolls, Star Wars’ Amidala action figures, The Simpsons’ Bleeding Gums Murphy figurines, and Mary-Kate-and-Ashley videos to satisfy...
...didn't want a different one, I wanted that again because you were perfect just like that, and I loved you." To the new, good Bernard, Salter was, by his lights, a good father; he had the chance to dote on his son instead of locking him in the cupboard. That leads him to the equivocation of a man still stained by his original sin: "I did some bad things. I deserve to suffer. I did some better things. I'd like recognition...
...gets equal attention from this light, and the structure of shadows and highlights Koch could raise from it can be extraordinarily dramatic and resolved. Witness his Music, 1956-57, and what this lovely fugue of pewter-gray and dark would lose if the L-shaped opening in its lower cupboard door were closed. Has any American artist ever painted the sheen of polished mahogany better than Koch? Well, maybe one: John Singleton Copley, whose work, not coincidentally, Koch adored...