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...either. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before the bull market collapsed and took his prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those...
...President-elect Clinton knows, however, the economy is undeniably the crucial issue to most Americans. To produce real fiscal change, Clinton's policies will need a considerable amount of time before they bear concrete results. Nonetheless, Clinton, who says he will "focus like a laser beam on this economy," has proposed some immediate changes that he plans to enact quickly in order to jumpstart the economy and bring it out of the current recession...
...already made motors smaller in diameter than a human hair. Drexler believes a bundle of nanorobots, weighing practically nothing, would be the perfect interstellar emissaries. Having arrived at a planet or asteroid around some distant star, perhaps in a solar sailship pushed to high speeds by a powerful laser beam from earth, they would go to work, antlike, building radio transmitters and other gear to report home for new instructions. They could also reproduce themselves and their ships in order to send off a new set of explorer robots...
...debut of "Harvard 02138" could soon beam into television sets all over Cambridge...
...Clinton's "spontaneous" entrance into the darkened hall, anointed by a beam of light straight out of Close Encounters...