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Though there is no lack of American painters who confuse eloquence with elephantiasis, the size of Golub's figures seems justified and necessary. Only by monumentalizing their documentary content could he give it the kind of fixity and silence it needed, and only that way could he achieve his peculiar balance between the sacrificial and the banal and so get rid of the sour whiff of pornography that attends images of extreme violence...
...present, results from one laboratory to the next may vary by as much as 10% to 15%, and some laboratories continue to regard readings of up to 300 mg as within the normal range. The panel called on the food industry to provide better labeling of the fat content in processed foods, and it urged restaurants to offer lower-fat items on their menus. Public education was seen as vital so that high-risk people can quickly be identified and treated. Said Steinberg: "We hope that five years from now people will say, 'I better go get my cholesterol...
...disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of 702,000. "Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies and language instruction...
Perhaps the show would have been even more effective if staged according to Beckett's directions, but Akalaitis's alterations are nothing if not reasonable. They change neither the content nor the force of the message. Beckett need not complain...
...deutsche mark and the French franc. One reason for the dollar's continued strength is that foreign central banks, especially in Western Europe, have been reducing interest rates in their countries just as the Federal Reserve has in the U.S. As a result, many overseas investors are still content to keep their money in the U.S. Says Volcker: "With the dollar so strong internationally, I believe we have more flexibility in the conduct of policy than for some time...