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Writing and mourning seem like naturally inimical activities. How does one attain the detachment necessary to write while still grieving for a loss--how to convey a paralyzing pain even as you're feeling...
Clinton, further, is sticking to his promise to pour an additional $220 billion into the economy over four years in spending for job training, education and infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, high-speed railroads, fiber-optic communications), which only makes it harder to attain his goal of cutting the fiscal 1997 deficit $145 billion below current projections (that would represent a 38%, rather than a 50%, cut). But if he is to retain any credibility, he must produce a concrete program for doing it, and soon...
...baseball, I saw a divine parallel for life itself: Men striving against their own limits to attain, through concentration and effort, the perfection that eludes, and by touching this plane, to gain a small measure of immortality...
...group striving to empower itself and to attain greater enfranchisement, time wasted trying to come up with a suitable name would be better spent on more meaningful pursuits...
...them, and though from time to time he could produce an intriguing passage of spiky marks or a brisk clash of blaring color, the work quickly settles into the visual monotony of arid overstylization. Its relentless fortissimo is wearisome. (An exception is some of the works on paper, which attain a delicacy of placement and interval absent from the paintings...