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...dusty floor. ''Get up! Get up!'' a man's voice was shouting. ''You are feigning death! You won't be allowed to get away with it.'' My arms were still bent to my back, but they were no longer handcuffed. The militant female guard was holding the heavy brass cuffs, all covered with congealed blood and pus. The guard probably considered them repulsive, as she was holding them gingerly by the chain with just two fingers. ''Don't think we are finished with you!'' the man said. ''There are other ways to bring you to your senses.'' The female guard...
...finals. Then he played the No. 3 guy at Yale and lost 7-6 in the third set,” Fish said. “It was a good tournament for him—probably a little hard on him not to get the brass ring at the end,” he said.Clayton had a little more success at Columbia, going 1-1 in singles competition. He beat Phillip Stephens from Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, before losing a hard-fought three set battle to Columbia’s Mark Clemente...
...only the media whom Gates is treating as adults. One senior officer said the top brass feel like they can now get a hearing for issues they never dared speak of; "It's like there's a substitute teacher in the classroom, people are coming out of the woodwork asking for stuff that they've bottled up." Gates himself acknowledged a change in atmosphere. "I would say what we have done, I hope, is create an environment in which the commanders feel open to requesting what they think they need, and then we will evaluate it here in the department...
...stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book for people who dress to thrill...
...challenge of illumination has often led to amusing and beautiful solutions, as can be seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle...