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...McLaughlin only hints at the special tension this game must present to both McLaughlin brothers, Notre Dame head coach Digger Phelps--under whom both Frank and Tom served as assistant coaches (at different times)--is much more explicit...
...burning stoves to new accounting concessions for small business, moved in on the legislation, and pet amendments for obscure tax advantage and profit became the pivotal issues of legislative action, not the grand theories of supply-side tax reduction" (p.51). At other points, Stockman makes this realization even more explicit, as when he says, "the client groups know now to make themselves heard. The problem is unorganized groups can't play in this game" (p.52). This is no criticism of any economic theory, rather it is an acknowledgement of the difficulties of interest group politics, as they are always played...
Intro Is main attraction, of course, is the personal ad section, divided into geographical segments and called "R.S.V.P." The ads cost $15 for the first 30 words and must be in good taste. Also anonymous. The hefty center section (40 pages in October) does not run sexually explicit language or code words such as dominant or submissive. No ads are knowingly accepted from homosexuals or married people. All replies to ads are opened and screened by Intro, which rejects any it finds offensive. "What we've done," says Douglas, "is revive the art of the handwritten love letter...
...Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors...
...once flies directly into the face of the current taste in art. Not "bleak" or "austere" or "minimal" like so much of what is now published, produced, painted or composed, Napoleon is exuberantly romantic. Modernism dictates that the artist's "message" be wrapped in puzzles and conundrums. Napoleon is explicit: "From now on I am the French Revolution," Bonaparte declares, and there are no secondary or tertiary meanings implicit in the statement. Symbolism here is not subterfuge; an eagle appears on the screen and that is Napoleon. A flame is superimposed on his angular unmoving face and Napoleon is Prometheus...