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...chief demand is one that has struck so responsive a chord in America that even President Nixon has started formulating a program of tax reform. Nothing has more outraged Middle-Forgotten-Populist Man as much as the fact that the wealthy often escape taxes while he is forced to cough up more and more. In calling for a fairer system and a closing of loopholes, the populists are being no more than eminently sensible. They are also on target when they insist that giving underaffluent people easier access to mortgages would appeal to both blacks and whites who are struggling...
...funniest sketches, a parfait of incongruities, is Columbus' discovery of America. Trying to convince Queen Isabella-Queen Isabel Johnson, that is-that she should cough up for the trip west, Columbus tells her that without America, there would be no Ray Charles. That sends her into a swivet. "Ray Charles?" she screeches. "You gonna find Ray Charles? He in America?" "Damn right," says Chris. After writing him out a traveler's check so that he can buy the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria at the Army & Navy Store, a zonked-out Isabel announces...
...good artist is wholly forgotten, but partial eclipses happen all the time. One shadowed Vuillard, who, between his birth in 1868 and his death in 1940, became one of the most respected names in French art. The respect, however, turned into the kind that tails off into a cough and a pause. No doubt Vuillard's own modesty contributed to the situation; thus between 1912 and 1938, the years when the big reputations were consolidating, he never had a one-man show in Paris. So it happened that Vuillard was tagged as a "minor master" and left...
...believe deeply," he said, "in the capacity of this country to serve the decent instincts of her own people and of mankind." He was less successful in speaking at the Alameda County fairgrounds where, hampered by a cough, he shouted hoarsely into the microphone and uncharacteristically slashed the air with Kennedy-style gestures...
...want a Democrat Spiro conning the unthinks on law-and-order, frightening citizens with national disaster unless we yet again and again cough up more billions for "defense," while an important segment of our population starves? No, thanks...