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...nearly two centuries, this separation of powers has been celebrated and affirmed as a fundamental tenet of the U.S. democratic system. But it has not always worked out so neatly in the rough-and-tumble of Washington politics. During the past 50 years, the theoretically crisp lines of authority have become more blurred, due largely to a device called a "legislative veto." Under this controversial maneuver, Congress drafts a statute broadly but incorporates a provision calling for review of the Executive Branch's implementation of the law. The provision permits one or both houses of Congress-or even...
...ding-ding-ding theme from the TV show; and Spielberg's Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four-part feature that takes Serling's moral tales into a new dimension: the second, where images and characters are as crisp, bright and fiat as those in a Chuck Jones cartoon...
...along the Houston Ship Channel, but the La Cangrejera complex dwarfs any single facility in Houston. And it isn't even the largest oil facility in Mexico." In Coatzacoalcos, the group met with Mario Ramon Beteta, the new director-general of Pemex, the state oil monopoly, who was crisp and candid in discussing the problems of his nation's petroleum industry...
...sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie's structure, crisp at first, ends up as a loose collection of scattershot satires...
Modern italic can be written with any instrument from a simple crayon to a 24-karat gold fountain pen (if it will write). But it looks best when written with a broad-edged pen. If the nib is crisp and the ink flow and paper are just right, italic writing gives its practitioners an almost sensuous pleasure...