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...joined the national board of SAEP just after its inception in 1980, and members credit him with raising corporate funds that are traditionally difficult to obtain, and securing a $2.7 million annual grant from AID. "Federal funds hang by a thread and corporate sponsors are not easy to find," says Donald Stewart, president of predominently Black Spelman College and a member of the SAEP board. "Bok has been very helpful in getting that kind of support...
Unfortunately, Ryan's characters talk like relics from The Front Page ("You want to hang a Congressman by the balls, you need more than a piece of thread. And how many times do I have to tell you not to smoke in my office?"). Otherwise, Deadlines is honest, unpretentious and informative. Breasted and Weinraub should have taught Ryan the third rule of journalism: don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. -By Donald Morrison
...like a dried leaf. Shields has a Japanese attitude toward paper: he likes it to speak for itself, and his approach is a matter of subtle interventions rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries of contrasting thread-looks both improvised and exact, like a well-blown line in jazz. The paper shapes themselves start as regular forms: spoked wheels, geometric grids, or a sheet perforated with spaced holes. Most of them are spares, leftovers from earlier "multiple" projects. But because there is so much small-scale chance...
...them are dead"; "The used key is always bright." Emerson thought proverbs "the sanctuary of the intuitions." Tolstoy's knowledge of common tradition led him to an encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil pours honey into other men's wives"; "The Russian has three strong principles: perhaps, somehow and never mind." In the epoch of the Romanoffs, wisdom was the only thing that was shared equally. Cossacks who conducted pogroms and victims in the shtetls flavored their remarks with...
...shared a common belief that the issue of resource allocation could be a unifying thread between nations," said Hiatt, who completed final arrangements for the program during a trip to Japan earlier this month...