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Even before the personnel shifts, there had been a curious sense of drift and lack of drive at the White House. Declared one former White House aide: "Since the election there has been no energy, no enthusiasm and no firm game plan." The staff changes would have been far less disruptive back in November, which is when Baker, Deaver and Nancy Reagan had urged the President to clean house. Instead of taking the initiative, however, Reagan characteristically let each aide...
...stake. Of the nine justices five-Blackmun, Brennan Burger, Marshall and Powell-are 75 years or older and of these, everyone except Burger comes form the moderate and liberal faction of the court. Should the President get to make two appointments, a reasonable estimate, the Court's teeem drift to the right could become a stampede...
...gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Says Painter Neil Jenney, who uses oversize frames to magnify his intentions as a realist: "Illusionistic painting demands a frame. It functions...
...Even though still attached by the thin tether, the astronauts can release their handholds and drift free, out of reach of the orbiter's gunwales. They can literally become human satellites, a thought that is both thrilling and somewhat sobering...
...areas of debate, the starkness of the choice is highlighted repeatedly, and one has to start with the respective choices for vice president. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-Queens) is cut from the same compassionate liberal clothe as Mondale, and she is infinitely preferable to George Bush, whose rightward drift while in office has supplanted his past record as a thoughtful moderate...