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...hard-liners in the Sharon government, that qualifies as restraint. To much of the rest of the world, the Israeli offensive that followed, though born out of months of simmering rage at Palestinian terror and Arafat's inability or refusal to stop it, was a staggering display of aggression. It was also potentially the most dangerous escalation yet in a war that people on both sides plainly hate but find impossible to escape...
...forgotten, eclipsed by the ceremonial spectacle of the 29-minute procession that escorted the coffin to its lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, a part of the Houses of Parliament. As black-tied, black-suited TV presenters on every channel pointed out, it was a splendid event, the biggest display of pageantry since Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. Draped in the Queen Mother's standard, topped by her diamond-encrusted crown and a single wreath of white roses and freesias from her daughter bearing the simple message, "In loving memory, Lilibet," the coffin was borne through crowd-lined streets...
Entitled “Three Women,” the show will display six paintings that have never before been shown in the same museum exhibit. The show will also be one of the first to highlight the artist’s early works—completed before he burst onto the Parisian art scene in 1891 with his print of the Moulin Rouge...
...Titus, a Roman army general, commands that the Goth queen Tamora’s eldest son be sacrificed to the memory of Titus’ own dead sons (all 21 of them). Quickly following this incident, Titus cuts down one of his few remaining sons, in a perhaps extreme display of patriarchal authority. And so we proceed, until the play’s infamously bizarre ending. Suffice it to say that there are lots of deaths, and none of them noble or beautiful. It is easy to see the necessity of “submitting” oneself...
...presence of the monster stimulates a simultaneous display of both the best and the worst humanity has to offer. On the side of brutality are the thugs who beat up the monster in a back alley, and on the side of greed, there is the government researcher who tortures the monster in a mad quest for grant money. Representing the more noble aspect of humanity, there is of course Beatrice, as well as Dr. Arto, a physicist and musician bedazzled by the rhythms of the universe and endowed with the power to destroy the monster. (You’ve seen...