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...reproduction conveys the effect of a picture like Black Circle, Time, 1979-80. Painted every inch of the way with a Seurat-like determination to leave nothing accidental on the surface, it is Pousette-Dart's version of the circle that has been used, as a mandatory trope, by every Zen roshi for the past 300 years. It is the circle of black ink on white rice paper that says "emptiness" but also says "fullness," the abstract figure in which one can reflect on the presence of complete being...
...hose in summer. So what if the oracles say I'm not properly dressed? I won't buy a catsuit this season, and I bet few other women will. While I refuse to trade in my pumps for Reeboks, I don't buy shoes with heels higher than an inch or two, and I still manage to have fashionable feet. (Pointy toes long ago revamped my metatarsals...
...through man's eyes but from the high ground of the Creation. It sets no test for survival and respects the meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost sacred covenant defining the nation's relationship with nature...
...stubborn dreamer out to rid the world of nuclear arms. He tells how he and Gorbachev, through five meetings and a prolific correspondence, built a rapport that helped end the cold war. -- Why he decided to run for President. -- The day he dodged death by less than an inch...
When a court order finally released the brothers from bondage in 1949, Stanley, 13, was 5 ft. 4 in. and weighed 97 lbs. Richard, 12, was an inch under 5 ft. and only 80 lbs. The pathetic pair were admitted to the Andrew Drumm Institute, a boy's home on a working farm near Independence, Mo. There Richard attended high school and learned to grow vegetables and slaughter chickens for the institute's kitchen. There, too, he escaped to the pages of books and so impressed his teachers that they put him on a scholarship road to Yale...