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...Dime-Store Ziegfeld...
...forcing a delinquent branch of government to take responsibility for its actions (or rather, its inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...
This prompted the Post, which doesn't have a dime to buy a banana from a pushcart, to lodge a lawsuit against the News. Hoffenberg charged that Zuckerman is a "vulture" and "body snatcher" who is trying to destroy the Post with his "crazy Kamikaze attack." The pages of both papers, meanwhile, barked daily accusations of impropriety and nasty innuendos about each other -- behaving, in other words, like tabloids. IT'S WAR! shrieked a Post banner. DAILY NEWS RAIDS THE POST...
...start of his career, about 14 years ago, the world was not ready for Koons. He made his first works, inflatable plastic flowers bought in a dime store and set in front of mirrors, without many people noticing. A second group of objects, vacuum cleaners displayed in highly lighted Plexiglas cases, failed at first to excite the indifferent collectors. How could this be? "I've always loved sales," Koons remarks in the catalog, "and to me, being a salesman is being very generous to the public because you're meeting the needs of the people...
Walsh, along with 18 others, was indicted inOctober for allegedly defrauding the Dime SavingsBank of New York by falsifying documents to securemortgage payments for real estate projects...