Word: labyrinthic
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Largely out of sight, deep in the labyrinth of the federal bureaucracy, Jimmy Carter is preparing for what may be the biggest battle of his presidency. As a keystone of his anti-inflation campaign, he has vowed to limit the red ink in the 1980 budget, which takes effect next October, to less than $30 billion. That will mean chopping as much as $18 billion out of the normal spending for programs that many people have come to take for granted. So department by department, determined Administration budget cutters are now looking everywhere for places to slash, and they...
After nine phone calls, MacArthur located in the labyrinth of the Department of Energy (DOE) a harassed man with, he swore, 3,999 other dams to worry about. He informed MacArthur that he might have become eligible for a loan by conducting something called a feasibility study, if only the wall had collapsed two months before. Now-too bad-the deadline for feasibility studies had passed...
...Humboldt's jealousy; but it's precisely this polish that lends Humboldt that extra edge of perversity. And then there is Peter Sellars, who is more wicked and twisted than ever as Humboldt's tormentor. Kubrick takes advantage of Sellars' game of character changes to build an elaborate cinematic labyrinth, and keeps us cleverly puzzled as we grope our way through. It's more accessible and less cerebral than Kubrick's recent work and still quite a fine film--as well as being one of the definitive variations on the theme of Lust's Labor's Lost...
...meantime, his books and albums accumulated: All in Line, his wartime drawings, in 1945: The Passport in 1954; The Labyrinth in 1960. As they did so, his reputation steadily grew, and he began to enter that choppy strait, much roiled by the currents of American aesthetic puritanism, where the "illustrator" or "cartoonist" finds his reputation crossing to that of "artist...
...distinguished English art critic David Sylvester, under the title "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed." It attempts to treat Dada and surrealism on their own terms (those of dandyism, revolt, love, dream and myth) rather than judge them by official "painterly" standards. As a result the show goes further into the labyrinth than any retrospective for years on writers like Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Antonin Artaud, and such painters as Dali, Ernst, Miro, Magritte and Alberto Giacometti...