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...understand, much less summarize, a city like this in the space of an essay. In between lovely greens, brooding men threaten another with knives; drunken people stagger around looking for a light; forlorn homeless wander past into the dark of the park; someone breaks a car window; friends laugh and urinate on storefronts; the police pass, looking for someone, maybe...
...Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas, the Agapitos/Wilson Collection consolidates their place on the Surrealist world map. In 1936, the same year Dal? appeared on the cover of Time ("A blazing pine tree, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers went out the window"), Melbourne-born Cant was busily assembling his wild lampshade and birdcage sculptures in London. Sadly, none survives, but Cant was at the epicenter of the movement's "chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table," to quote the Surrealists' literary hero Lautr?amont, and exhibited...
...Mount on the Mountain of Beatitudes. He says he and his wife Teresa also visited Capernaum, the site on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have performed healing miracles. Kerry adds that learning last year that his paternal grandparents were Jewish "opens a wonderful window actually onto how we all get to be where we are and who we are. It's an interesting journey--a classic American journey in many ways...
...Tweedy acknowledges on the final track, The Late Greats--but the album may still be the year's most addictive rock release. "One of the underlying principles of the band is the idea that there is no formula," Tweedy says, "that it's O.K. to throw everything out the window, including the things you're pretty sure about...
...rarely this sweet and simple. Thomas Kelsey, a computer scientist and cancer researcher at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, was browsing through a medical journal in April 2003, when he spotted a graph that looked oddly familiar. That bit of pattern recognition may help give women a window on their reproductive future - the ability to know in advance when they will reach menopause. The graph plotted the ovary size of healthy women in the U.S. against their age. But to Kelsey's eye, it had an identical trajectory to a mathematical model used to estimate the decline...