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...front-page story, and finds himself in the middle of a great conspiracy involving the water supply of thirsty Los Angeles--rendered here with delicate eye and choice of color filters. Enter Faye Dunaway, older than you remember her, as the real wife of the man, soon murdered, her thick dark lipstick granting her what Joyce somewhere calls red mollusc lips...
Famed as the place where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church attracts many visitors. No one paid much attention when a short, chunky black man wearing a tan suit and thick glasses slipped into a seat a few feet from the organ...
...throat of a stranger in a coach with his "excellent English razor," and shipped back to Britain. Dadd spent the last 40 years of his life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886. One of his infrequent visitors wrote that though he was still plagued by "thick-coming horrors and portentous visions," Dadd was by then "a pleasant-visaged old man with a long and flowing snow-white beard with mild blue eyes that beam benignly through spectacles when in conversation, or turn up in reverie until their pupils are nearly lost to sight...
...practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...
...soon, even these resources will be exhausted, and the solution may well be to dismantle the giant planet Jupiter. How? Berry recalls a mind-boggling scheme to speed up Jupiter's rotation enough to tear off chunks of the planet; they would then be assembled in a thick band in orbit around the sun. The debris would reflect useful solar energy back toward earth and could also be used for human settlement...