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That's because the list of Inaugural entertainments, courtesies and adornments is endless. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have lent a total of 500 cars and trucks to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, presumably with the hope that TV viewers will notice their vehicles as they carry VIPs down Pennsylvania Avenue. Korbel has provided 800 cases of a "Special Inaugural Cuvee," emblazoned with the presidential seal; Clairol has invited journalists to have their hair done at a Washington salon, while MTV is throwing its own Inaugural ball with the high-minded goal of honoring "the young Americans who voted...
...with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...
Joan Baez returned to her home turf on the 23rd of November with the maturity, sensitivity and variety that time has lent to her music...
...debt, like a Chinese water torture device, torments and slowly undermines our long-term economic well-being. In recent months, according to financial analysts, more than 50% of the money lent by commercial banks has gone not to individuals, entrepreneurs, or companies who will create new business opportunities and jobs, but rather to fund federal borrowing...
Wright managed to enrapture a particular type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over...