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...This year the earth spoke, like God warning Noah of the deluge. Its message was loud and clear, and suddenly people began to listen, to ponder what portents the message held. In the U.S., a three-month drought baked the soil from California to Georgia, reducing the country's grain harvest by 31% and killing thousands of head of livestock. A stubborn seven-week heat wave drove temperatures above 100 degrees F across much of the country, raising fears that the dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases...
News travels swiftly through one insect colony: delicious crystals have been found in a distant country. Eager to please its queen, a group sets out in search of edible treasure. When the sugar is found, each takes one grain and heads back -- except for Two Bad Ants (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Their mishaps with a spoon, a toaster, a cup of coffee and a human mouth are the subjects of Chris Van Allsburg's tale, brilliantly illuminated with renderings of a world seen from the underside, as two tiny protagonists scamper through its wonders and terrors on all sixes...
...result, Kossoff's work went naturally against the grain. A figurative painter when abstract art was the rage, he sinned by embracing premature neoexpressionism back in the '50s and '60s. When painting was required to be thin, linear and efflorescent, Kossoff stuck to delving into the images and people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which...
Like most attack ploys, there was a grain of truth to be exploited: the prison-furlough policy used by Massachusetts went beyond the boundaries of common sense. Unlike other states and the Federal Government, which usually employ furloughs to gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
...reduce the budget deficit, Dukakis favors numerous spending cuts, including the reduction of federal subsidies to grain farmers. He also hopes to reap billions of dollars owed to the government in taxes, with his Revenue Enforcement Program...