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When this show was first mooted, there were doubts. The rarity and fragility of some of Seurat's major paintings meant they could not travel. No Grande Jatte, therefore; no Baignade, Asnieres, 1883-84; no Chahut. Was this like staging Hamlet without the prince? As it turns out, no. Apart from the fact that some works of art should never travel, and deserve the tribute of a pilgrimage, their absence forces one to concentrate on the abundance of others that the curatorial team, headed by Francoise Cachin of the Musee d'Orsay, has assembled...
...seems that the best thing Mario has going for him is just being Mario. So even if Cuomo does botch a few budgets, or indulge in a strange political staging of a postmodern Hamlet, he still screams out as the perfect presidential candidate...
...tragedy that occurred in Hamlet is a direct result of 10 years of the Reagan-Bush philosophy of letting industry police itself," says Deborah E. Berkowitz, top safety expert for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. "There's a USDA inspector in every poultry plant to protect consumers from getting a stomachache, but there's nobody protecting people from getting killed...
Twenty-three states have devised their own regulatory schemes, which exempt them from federal scrutiny, but the results have been mixed. North Carolina, where the Hamlet fire took place, has one of the worst systems. Under federal guidelines, the state should have 116 inspectors. Instead it has just 27 to oversee 163,053 employers. Last week the Charlotte Observer reported that in 1990 inspections declined 35% from the previous year and the state returned $453,000 in unspent federal money that could have been used to perform more inspections...
...uneducated women. Anxious to keep their jobs -- despite an average industry wage of just $5.50 an hour -- they are unlikely to make waves. Many of the 25 who died in last week's fire were so poor that the Textile Workers Union sent dresses and men's suits to Hamlet for use as burial clothes...