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...local TV headlines. Then he heads for the third floor for half an hour on the NordicTrack (jogging is out because of a lame hip) and a verbal massage from his friend Rush Limbaugh over the wide screen. In the shower he takes down an old-fashioned shaving brush and mug and lathers up. The equipment "tells you something," he says. But he shaves in the shower with a modern razor...
This is not Martin's first brush with controversy in the college's history department...
...evening a few days ago when I heard a noise outside my door. Thinking it was a friendly visitor, I called out an invitation to enter--but no one crossed my threshold. I eventually got up and opened the door. It was then that I discovered my close brush with evil...
...piece with a gray underpainting on which he builds layers of brighter color--he doesn't use any pigments straight from the tube, preferring instead to mix subtle tones. His darkest shades are made up of reds, blues, and greens; he never uses black in a painting. Howe's brush strokes are, for the most part, controlled, although in some of his earlier pieces like "Adele's Tea House I," the actual process remains visible: "the painting is still here, not flattened...
...began. Muhammad, who is a top aide to Louis Farrakhan, delivered his incendiary talk on Nov. 29. Ever since, there's been a slow burn of controversy, finally exploding into the kind of racial brush fire that's become familiar in American political discourse. Here's how it works: 1) a semi-obscure black figure says something outrageous or anti-Semitic; 2) pundits pontificate, word processors whirr; 3) one by one, black leaders are forced to condemn the offending words and the offensive speaker. It happened to Professor Griff, formerly of the politically charged rap group Public Enemy. It also...