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...Andalusian Dog, 1929, and The Golden Age, 1930) remain classics of provocation. For a few years, Lorca and Dali found themselves in a trance of mutually reinforcing narcissism. "The poetic phenomenon in its entirety and 'in the raw,' " Dali wrote of Lorca, "presented itself before me suddenly in flesh and bone, confused, blood- red, viscous and sublime." This was understatement compared with the fervid sexual passion Lorca felt for Dali. Dali, who fanatically denied his own homosexual urges, did not respond to Lorca's passes -- though, he characteristically remarked, "I was very flattered from the point of view...
...crystalline and extravagant beauty of Lorca's imagery helped release similar qualities in Dali's work; above all, it was the poet's baroque character, his preoccupation with death, sex and the morbidity of flesh, that encouraged the younger artist's imagination. The mark Lorca left on Dali's art was not its modernity but its extreme Spanishness. But that, too, is why Dali's best work has lasted...
...Because O.J. Simpson's celebrity means that for most Americans he is a flesh-and-blood human being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...
Severe invasive group a streptococcus is the official scientific name, but labels like "deadly flesh-eating bacteria" can be too deliciously terrifying to resist. That's what British tabloids decided when they learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported...
...immunity. The big difference this time is better treatment. While some strains of strep are showing resistance to some antibiotics, the drugs are still effective in most cases. If people seek prompt treatment for sore throats and unusually high fevers -- especially when they've recently suffered cuts -- those deadly flesh-eating bacteria need not be deadly...