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...bullet in the leg when two Portuguese army planes strafed his village of Tumbi. Twelve-year-old Andre Destino's village of Boa Nuta was first strafed, then raided by troops in trucks. They shot and killed his father and brother, left him for dead with his left buttock shot away. "I estimate we've killed 30,000 of these animals already," bragged one Portuguese army officer in Luanda. "There are perhaps 100,000 of them in revolt-and we intend to kill every one of them when the dry season starts late...
Next week in Los Angeles, a modern mecca of breast and buttock fanciers, the County Museum is staging one of the biggest Renoir retrospectives ever held. On show will be top-flight canvases from Renoir's best working years, from 1865 until his death in 1919. Curator Richard Brown has also rounded up a nearly complete set of Renoir's prints, many of his finest drawings, and 18 sculptures...
...feelings he is still very much a man like other men-despite his troubles with Francoise.* Erotic, nostalgic, satiric, philosophic and clownish by turns, he shows bafflement, bitterness, faithlessness, a saving sense of humor and an even healthier sense of mystery. He can limn a breast or buttock, an evil grin or a sorrowful eye, with one stroke of his pen, but he never stands on skill alone, and even scorns perfection. A devoted artist, he keeps showing by purposeful slips and elisions that art is a matter of illusion. "What's my line?" he seems...
...doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...
...buttock like a crupper bears my weight...