Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz supported Aquino's policy of putting military pressure on the Communists while inviting them to the negotiating table. Yet Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile seemed to undercut that two-pronged approach by stating that it would take a "miracle" to produce a political solution. Aquino and Enrile denied persistent rumors of a serious rift between them, and the two made several joint appearances. Enrile did say that he might run in the next presidential elections...
...discussion demonstrated that important factions of the Democratic Party are now willing to confront the topic of the underclass and think it could work to their political advantage. "If we approach the social question correctly," Cuomo noted, "we will seize the opportunity Reagan has given us." A common theme was that the Democrats must seek effective ways to improve the plight of the poor while not clinging to expensive programs that have not proved helpful. "What worked in 1966 may not work in 1986," said Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, a black who chairs the House Budget Committee. "Saying that...
...easy enough to blame such situations on the proliferation of government regulations and the heavy hand of government itself. President Reagan, for one, took that approach a while back when he publicly denounced his own Medicaid administrators for paying $12,000 a month to keep 3-year-old Katie Beckett in a hospital but refusing to pay the mere $2,000 it would have cost for her to live at home. When Presidents intervene, of course, bureaucrats tend to see reason. Katie was duly sent home, and a new committee was named to check on the several dozen other Katies...
...this collection of pieces seems strange, so do Gould's performances. The actual sound of Gould's piano is quite unusual (the only piano he played for recordings sounds like it's one-quarter harpsichord), as is his approach to these pieces. Gould's renditions--with generally slow tempos, accentuated inner voices, and understated pedalling--seem a deliberate attempt to fly in the face of the norms of "Romantic" virtuoso pianism...
...problem is their earnestness in pursuit of pop. More interesting and significant was the neo-Dada embrace of pop by artists and independent intellectuals of the 1950s and early '60s. Their approach was off-center, cool in every sense. In Andy Warhol's first shows, in 1962, he exhibited enormous paintings of Coke bottles and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. The subject was pop, but determinedly devoid of high-culture anger. Roy Lichtenstein's jumbo cartoon-panel paintings, complete with mawkish dialogue fragments and ersatz Benday dots, were jollier expressions of the same idea...