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...relations between the White House and Capitol Hill, there were predictions that it will take years to sort out its myriad implications and bring Congress into full compliance. At least 110 laws are still on the books containing legislative veto provisions, and they cover the gamut of Executive Branch functions. Procedural questions also remain unresolved. Most important is the issue of "severability": Which of the affected laws can be cleansed of their unconstitutional veto clauses, as the court last week ruled was permitted in the immigration law, and which laws must now be thrown away along with their veto provisions...
Oppositely, live music almost never lets up at the Paradise on Commonwealth Ave., or the Channel on Necco St. The Paradise runs the gamut from traditional rock to trendy new wave, and lands a goodly number of national names, Gregg Allman will be there, as will one of Boston's best very own. The Stompers. Also, make a very special note in your calendars of July 13 REM, with one of the two or three best albums of the year so far, Murmur, under tow is slated...
Launching onto an attack of the economic policies of the Reagan Administration. Trudeau's hatangue ran the gamut from quips about the integrity of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan to Administration efforts to out back on school lunch programs...
...decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs, speaking engagements and television deals. Says Chiles: "We seem to have allowed these people...
...unveiling partly through his language, which, though elegant and fragile, is not as colorful or as powerful as that in The White Hotel. Equally important are the characterizations. In The White Hotel, Lisa Erdman and Freud were a haunting, even inspiring pair, but Surkov, Rozanov and Finn run the gamut from merely distasteful to completely horrifying...