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...children should not grow up frightened," Ronald Reagan said. "They should not fear the future." But the President's approach to preventing nuclear war was of itself, and necessarily, a frightening thing: he urged deployment of 100 huge new MX intercontinental ballistics missiles in a Dense Pack cluster near Cheyenne...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...
Administration officials had little time to rejoice over that small victory before they received more bad news from Beirut. A 155-mm "cluster" shell, of the type supplied by the U.S. to Israel, exploded on the airport tarmac, killing one Marine and wounding three others. The shell was apparently left over from the heavy fighting last summer between Israeli troops and guerrillas of the P.L.O. The dead man, Corporal David L. Reagan, 21, of Chesapeake, Va., was a combat engineer assigned to clear the airport of land mines and other explosives...
...painting in the '50s and '60s, not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks, a flurry of waves, a knot of seaweed, a post or two) had everything to do with the compositional procedures of color-field painting in the '60s. So did his liking for dilute, discreetly modulated washes of pure pigment that stained the canvas rather than...
...Congressional Campaign Committee: "Now there is a psychological uplift to those who are not unemployed or facing bankruptcy. If the psychology of fear is reversed, then people will listen to the Republican message. We will still pick up seats, but not as many." Most estimates, including Coelho's, cluster around a Democratic gain often to 15 seats in the House, not particularly impressive for the opposition party in a mid-term election...