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...program. A homeowner in suburban Wilmington, Del., sarcastically observed: "I think it is a fine plan. I am going to put the refund in the bank and use it to pay the gas tax." The Wilmington Evening Journal criticized the plan as "somewhat circular. The ordinary taxpayer is apt to get a bit dizzy watching that circle revolve...
...arts, as elsewhere, there are some enfants terribles whose public image gets trapped in infancy. Whether or not such an artist really is Peter Pan, he is apt to be treated as though he were; a precocious reputation stiffens round him like a coffin, immuring him in the period of his youth. He is not expected to mature, but simply to become an older virtuoso, so that all his later work risks being dismissed as an appendage to the earlier. If he accepts this role, it grips him, and he turns into a vulgar monster-something like Salvador Dali...
...take place in a tree house, where George secretly watches his wife and her hairy lover do their act in what was once Melish's own bedroom. From his preadolescent perch, George reviews his life like a man flipping the dial on a TV set. It is an apt literary device considering that George is a victim of the same attitudes that he has watered down and packaged for mass prime-time consumption...
...mostly just a matter of a person who expected a great deal--the business of destroying what you want is a pretty common thing to do, and you're more apt to do it if you have unreasonable expectations of the thing that you want...
Never has Harvard coach Tom "Satch" Sanders's characteristic understatement been more apt than when he spoke yesterday of his team's inability "to beat the host team...