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...legal battle. When he arrived at Rochester, he says, he could walk a lap or two on the prison track. Now he's winded after climbing down a flight of stairs. He must sleep virtually sitting up, and gets oxygen all night. He fears that a heart attack or stroke could leave him on life support rather than kill him outright. "Serving a four-year sentence on life support," Murphy shudders. "That's scary." Ironically, his life seeps away just minutes from the Mayo Clinic, home to a world-famous heart- transplant program. "It drives me crazy," he says...
...sable -- that forced broader and more pictorially solid shapes into the paint with which he depicted flesh, helping him compose the body's structure in terms of twisting and displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers...
...words today, but his meaning is the same. "To get respect, we've got to be free agents," he says. "We won't be taken for granted" -- which means that Jackson himself wants to be taken seriously. Clinton has the power, the smarts and more than enough time to stroke Jackson, and he surely will if he determines he must...
...INTERMISSION. Stop. Pause. Breath. Sleep. Eat. Listen again. And again and again and again and again. Try to figure out how many different albums you have with Parliament's Up For the Down Stroke on it. Praise Sly. Preach the eternal peace that comes with James. Sleep. Eat. Realize that you never would have heard Wild Cherry if not for this wonderful collection. Be happy. Listen again...
...putt for dough" is an expression golfers understand. So should members of Congress, many of whom are fond of playing the game at someone else's expense. However, despite the legislative long balls hit over the past season, Capitol Hill's 535 members were unable to master one essential stroke: reforming the rules for their own behavior. True, both the House and Senate gave the appearance of movement on laws designed to tighten campaign financing and lobbying regulations. But both bodies moved so late and in such contradictory directions that any reconciliation they are able to fashion next year would...