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...train. Why just the other day, over the course of a fitful hour, my sleep was disrupted by three different phones ringing to the tunes of La Cucaracha, Fur Elise and the Ride of the Valkyries. With the C-Guard secreted in my briefcase, I would lie in wait for some Valkyrie-riding nitwit to make my day. Just as my unsuspecting victim's phone trilled, say, the Mexican Hat Dance, I'd jam down the button. "Hello?" he'd bleat pathetically. "Hello? Hello? Hello...
KIDS LOVE: The Triumph of Valor over Time by Gian Domenico Tiepolo. The painting is installed on the ceiling, and young visitors are urged to lie on their backs to look at it. They also like a coffin from Ghana, shaped like a Mercedes-Benz, for "going out in style...
...hens as evil ones; and the most famous Buñuelian motif of all, erotically charged images of feet and shoes. Though he declared he maintained an emotional distance from the majority of his "obsessions," "Objects of Desire" does contain the admission that a personal fascination did indeed lie behind the inclusion in his films of various sequences showing the bared thighs of young women. More importantly, he never denied the personal nature of another of his obsessions, namely the use of religious icons and rituals as a vehicle for satire and political statement...
...generally accepted in Europe that if the E.U. is to be an actor on the global political stage, it has to have some military might to back its positions with forces on the ground. Everybody thinks it's a great idea, but the proof will lie in the implementation. Still, what we've seen this week is a lot more meat than many people expected...
...location of stone and plate was quickly forgotten. No one is certain where it is today, despite high technology and old-fashioned dowsing rods. Truman did not find it during his renovation. And no modern President wants to cut into the sacred walls. That cornerstone, wherever it is, will lie undisturbed, one hopes, for at least another two centuries...