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...same pitch of high manneristic skill can be seen, though used to wholly variant ends, in the work of Richard Shaw, 40; drawing from the American trompe 1'oeil tradition begun in the 19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful...
...dismiss the poor. It's like saying 'Let them eat cake' when they don't even have bread." Protested Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich: "If you're going to cut programs it should be done with a scalpel and not a meat ax . . . Otherwise, we're in the strange position where a single national purpose is supposed to be pursued in 50 different ways with 50 different degrees of enthusiasm...
...cities and towns across the country last week, voters were in an unpredictable and slightly cranky mood. In tiny (population: 1,200) Enoch, Utah, Mayor Worth Grimshaw was re-elected handily only days after he was jailed for demolishing his 1962 Chevy with an ax so that his ex-wife would not gain custody of the car. In Kingston, N.Y., Mayor Donald Quick won his race despite campaign accusations that he had fixed parking tickets. Voters of Belmont County, Ohio, elected Wayne Hays, 70, who resigned from Congress in 1976 after the Liz Ray sex scandal, to the county board...
Where the ax will fall is another question seriously troubling defense-minded Congressmen. Some fear that the Administration will primarily reduce scheduled increases in the Operations and Maintenance account, which covers spare parts, ammunition and training. In contrast to slowdowns in weapons procurement, which take years to be reflected in actual outlays, an O. and M. slash would reduce Pentagon spending quickly, but also crimp efforts to solve what many defense specialists regard as the nation's worst military deficiency: the inability of many units to get ready to fight immediately...
...later: "Storm clouds were coming up in the financial numbers." In recent weeks Tonight staffers who queried editors about the paper's future were advised to look for other jobs. The only question remaining was how deep the cuts would go. Of the 320 slated to get the ax, 63 were in the editorial department (including virtually all the staff hired for Tonight) and the rest in advertising, circulation, administration and the paper's blue-collar crafts. Said one News editor: "It was like a Thanksgiving meal...