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...attacked in force, waving their tiny feelers, the elephant did not even see them. He thundered down the trail, trampling them underfoot. Then a new generation of ants came along, and they were much cleverer. Instead of attacking in the open, the ants lured the elephant deep into the thick bamboo, where he could neither see nor move about easily. The ants swarmed up his legs and attacked his eyes, mouth and the soft pink flesh inside his trunk. The elephant thrashed around, confused and maddened, and in the end he was reduced to a pile of whitened bones...
...Crimson can come up with solid answers is will bounce back from its loss to Cornell into the thick of the Ivy race. If the right answers don't come, Harvard's title hopes are through...
...destroyed all of his pre-World War II paintings, which, judging from a few surviving drawings, were representational. War marked his second phase, forcing his art away from nature into abstraction. It is his late paintings (see color), which combine slabs of bright paint (the thick impasto on one canvas weighs upwards of 300 bs.) with recognizable imagery, that won him international regard. The combination seemed fresh in the inbred postwar School of Paris abstraction that had reduced paint into drab pastry, a ritualistic manufacture of croûtes (crusty surfaces) that lacked the restless energy of American abstract expressionism
...many parents give their consent for an operation only because they know that if a doctor does not do it, some school chum is ready and willing. All she needs is a fat sewing needle, a couple of ice cubes (for numbing the lobe), and some thick white thread to keep the breach open...
...Keilholz decides plush interior is absorbing too much sound. Hall's deep-pile gold carpeting is rolled up and replaced with black vinyl. All 1,384 thick-cushioned seats on main floor are removed and replaced with 1,502 skinnier wood-back models. Rivulet-shaped panels are tacked on side walls to reflect flow of sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room...