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...Fontaine') a terrific kick in the pants for Since "only art defines art," it be extremely difficult for the government to determine a support policy. And so," said Robbins, "let us devise to stimulate the artist's market tampering with his product." tax concessions, more government commissions, student grants, indirect encouragement of American...
...Government would impose new taxes of 2? per gallon on jet fuel and barge fuel, which would help to defray the Government's costs of dredging waterways, building airports and running the air lanes-and also help to quiet the railroaders' complaints that their competitors enjoy many indirect subsidies. Direct subsidies to the nation's small "feeder" airlines, now amounting to $68 million a year, would be stopped...
...President Eisenhower: "He was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two. three, or four lines of reasoning to a single problem and he usually preferred the indirect approach where it would serve him better than the direct attack on a problem. His mind was quick and facile. His thoughts far outraced his speech and this gave rise to his frequent 'scrambled syntax...
...camel through the eye of a needle, the eye being the Holland Tunnel." But "the theater is strangling itself in the Broadway struggle," he says, "Most plays are produced on a limited-partner basis. The same money is used over and over again." And this financial centralization creates "indirect censorship"-that is, relatively few people decide what plays will be done. Different ideas, new writers and unfamiliar situations are far too risky for parochial Broadway, and "if the theater is to correct its own ills, it must start in fresh fields...
...makes a pass at Claudia--a few hours after Claudia has fallen quite hopelessly in love with him, the film waits upon his comings and goings. He is the least human character in the film, and easily the least attractive, yet his obnoxiously simple character is also Antonioni's indirect way of saying there is nothing rational in Claudia's growing obsession...