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...treated." The New York Senator is performing for a journalist in his Washington office. He's playing the New D'Amato--the same gracious character who has been seen on TV running the Senate Whitewater hearings and promoting a new autobiography. This is the persona designed to dim the memory of the Old Al, a cunning machine politician who was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991 after a dozen influence-peddling scandals had thoroughly soiled his name. "Be generous and fair," the New D'Amato says in conclusion, "not malevolent and meanspirited...
...children's art-education program survive, and know that the prospects of their survival are bound up with continuing, if modest, support from the NEA. Though the NEH and CPB will prove much harder to kill, the prospects of the NEA's survival in the long run are dim...
...moons suddenly became visible during a rare celestial event known as an "Earth ring crossing," in which Saturn's highly reflective dust rings dim...
...robust art form will often have its health called into question. Take English theater, for example. American visitors to London commonly discover that theater there flourishes as in no American city--and that newspaper reviewers are constantly issuing mournful prognoses and wistful elegies for some dim golden age. Conversely, when an art form is regularly praised for its strength, you naturally grow a little apprehensive...
...kind of Bosnian litter: half-devoured bodies . skulls . busy, slithering snakes. The painting St. George and the Dragon is a vision of evil perfectly at home in the late 20th century, even though the artist imagined it almost 500 years ago. It gleams like a premonition in the garage-dim Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. What is missing from the picture in 1995, of course, is the St. George part -- the rescue: Evil impaled, Good's shining blond revenge...