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Nevertheless, there are moments, individual works in the show, that develop a peculiar grip. An early one is a small white room with nothing in it except two speakers on opposite walls, from which comes a hissing, weirdly broken repetition of two phrases, recited by Nauman: "Get out of this room. Get out of my mind." The paranoid intensity of this cell has to be experienced to be believed. Another is a video piece: the projected image of a mime, with a chair suspended from the ceiling behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice...
...Stars, playing the second of a season-long six-game homestand that will most likely decide Dallas' playoff fate, maintained their grip on the seventh playoff spot in the conference with 37 points, three behind sixth-place Vancouver...
...once the recruits are in the cult's grip, they encounter a darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...
Choking in the grip of the U.N.'s economic sanctions, Saddam Hussein had in recent months tried a charm offensive, designed to persuade the U.S. to ease up--much to the disgust of at least one hard-liner close to him. Last week Saddam's eldest son Udai publicly condemned the conciliatory efforts as a failure and urged his father to take a harder line. On the very day that the U.S. succeeded once again in blocking efforts by France, Russia and China to loosen the sanctions, the two Americans were seized after they entered Iraq. "They're certainly...
...about everywhere else. Consider the recent lesson from Rutgers University. Here we have a perfectly nice liberal fellow, a college president with a record of responsiveness to minority concerns. He opens his mouth to talk about minority test scores, and then-like a Tourette's syndrome victim in the grip of a seizure-he comes out with the words "genetic hereditary background." Translated from the academese: minorities are dumb, and they're dumb because they're born that...