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...double?to $8,300. "We see waste in the school system every day," she contends. "At 15 or more high schools, there's a dean for every grade, plus a head dean for the deans. At one school they had enough money to buy six electric typewriters, so they did???even though there was only one typist. Money is allotted for summer school mainly so more teachers can have jobs. And instead of teaching remedial reading, they teach backpacking or other craftsy things...
Certainly, Rauschenberg's combines have no political content worth looking for. Virtually no "major" American art of the '50s did???the mood was one of apolitical quietism, and it was assumed that art had no chance of reforming the world. Yet a number of the combines do seem, at this distance, to be "coded." The title of Odalisk, 1955-58, directs us to a favorite image of those two sultans of French art, Ingres and Matisse?the harem nude. Rauschenberg parodies that: the box on its post alludes to a human figure; a torso, teetering on its absurd harem cushion...
...grand-slam home run. While crossing home plate he looked up and raised a fist of defiance to the watching Finley. The next day, in front of then Manager John McNamara, four coaches and Team Captain Sal Bando, Finley ordered Jackson to sign a written apology. Jackson finally did???in tears...
Surely one of the bitterest, most poignant tolls of the war was taken simply on the 2.7 million Americans who fought there. If the majority of them performed bravely and well?and they did???their sacrifices were somehow tragically diminished by the very ambiguity of the war, its often enraging purposelessness. At its very worst, that frustration produced My Lai and other less celebrated atrocities. The fraternity of Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back...
...daughter you inevitably grow up in your mother's shadow. In her early professional appearances, Liza had to face audiences that came to see her largely because she was "Judy Garland's kid" and were frankly skeptical about whether she could measure up to the name. In time she did???and then some. She played in an off-Broadway musical, starred in one on Broadway, and won roles in three movies. She made records, appeared on TV and went out on the nightclub circuit...