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While most insiders consider insiderdom so distasteful that they try to bury it under a thick layer of gloss, I almost envy the access to information that members of what Newsweek's Meg Greenfield calls the "politico-journalistic elite" enjoy. I'll admit the possibility that I'm not asking the right questions of my interviews or understanding the full meaning of their replies. But seasoned reporters tell me that wading through ten minutes of "squishy" chaff to get a few sentences of pith isn't an unusual experience here...
...fall, Palamarchuk makes no excuses about the milieu he inhabited. "What are you driving?" he asks, single-eyeballing a reporter's rented Chevy Corsica in a parking lot in his hometown of Bensalem. "Ahhh, that's easy to steal." Palamarchuk has raging gray hair, grungy clothes and the thick, menacing fingers of a man who's been plundering cars since the 1950s. During World War II, Palamarchuk claims he served on an underwater-demolition team in the Pacific, being paid, in effect, "$54 a month to kill people." As a result, he says, filching cars never posed an ethical dilemma...
...typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate -- or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole -- and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven poles covered with dried mud. Meals of corn, squash and beans, supplemented with the occasional turkey or rabbit, were probably eaten...
...should know about such problems from the way he has mismanaged his own franchise. The Brewers, in fact, currently have the worst record in the American League and a severely dwindling attendance. This in baseball-mad Milwaukee, where fan support for the Brewers has usually held strong through thick and thin...
...yearning, dumb and absurdly coquettish, they are among the most memorable animals in modern art. Several of them, like Cow with the Beautiful Muzzle, 1954, also contain some of the most inspired and wristy drawing of Dubuffet's career, formed by the brush -- or its handle -- dragging through the thick paint...