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...congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises to the occassion and blows the bastards out of the country...
...organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
...find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...from the executive secretary of the school committee, Claire Rodley, who often advises the committee as parliamentarian on matters of procedure. Ms. Rodley agreed that the election of a vice chair should be brought before the committee as new business and be discussed at its next regularly-scheduled meeting. Whereupon Duehay, in a display of power politics, overruled the opinion of the parliamentarian and proceeded to take a vote on the motion...
...cross hairs and it was just a matter of time," said the official. Next Ayyash's hunters created problems with his phone line. Through intermediaries, he sent the phone for repair to a Gaza shopkeeper, who forwarded it to an Israeli mobile-phone company, whereupon security officials intercepted it. They sent back a "temporary" loaner, whose earpiece was packed with a tiny but potent bomb. On the morning of Ayyash's death, they phoned him, confirmed his voice on the line and set off the explosives by remote control...