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Trap for Whom? Today there seems to be a rise in the number of such claims, but in fact the concept has never enjoyed much judicial support. In 1864 a Judge Bacon of New York remembered that the plea was "first interposed in Paradise: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' That defense was overruled by the great Lawgiver, and [it] has never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance...
Nonetheless, López Portillo mounted a grueling campaign to get acquainted with the voters, only a few hundred of whom had even heard his name when Echeverria picked him last September. Since then, his campaign bus Quetzalcoatl (for the plumed serpent of pre-Columbian lore) has logged 40,600 miles, traversing the countryside from the humid south to the High Sierras...
...states stretch 1,300 miles from Massachusetts' rocky Maine coast to the sand hills of Georgia. Sometimes regional differences, suspicions and hostilities among the colonies have been stronger than the antagonisms between England and the new continent. The celebrated old drawing depicting the colonies as separate segments of a serpent's body is hardly an exaggeration...
...only with six sculptors and ten works--a highly specialized sample of the art of sculpture between 1778 and 1914, The differences between works are minute, and either an expert's eye or the $35 catalogue is needed in order to recognize the differences between one "Lion Attacking a Serpent" made from a plaster mold, and another made from a gelatin mold. Each mold makes a particular kind of scratch on the surface of the piece, which an uninitiated viewer can easily overlook...
Many of these pieces--especially Carpeaux's "Lion Crushing a Serpent" and Rodin's "Man With a Broken Nose"--succeed in all their versions because the original forms built by the artist are still so strong. Others, like Daniel Chester French's (the man who sculpted John Harvard) oversentimentalized "Memory," have little artistic merit either in their original or successive states...