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...says Wyeth, "because they won't understand." He fears that they will find her grotesque. Christina's house contains the anonymous leavings of years of confinement. The smell of burning oil, charred wood, fat cats and old cloth fills the air. Christina, now nearing 70, does not let anyone see how she moves about, stubbornly refuses to use a wheelchair. "Andy's a very good friend," she says. "I like to pose for him. He talks a great deal when he paints, but he doesn't talk nonsense." She does not talk nonsense either. Despite...
...Never paint the material of the sleeve," N.C. would roar. "Become the arm!" It was classical instruction, demanding empathy with the object. Yet the leonine old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy-that empty barrels are lonely. He believed that the painting must find an echo inside the painter-in a sense, Method painting. It was all done with such verve and warmth that, as Sister Carolyn says, "there was nothing arty about it. It was like coasting, like playing outside in the snow...
...will be tempting for Obama to let Congress and the states fill the gaps with their own wish lists. But as Obama adviser Larry Summers has warned, a poorly designed stimulus "can have worse side effects than the disease that is to be cured." Handouts for clean coal, ethanol and other misguided energy technologies would be worse than inaction. With apologies to Keynes, incentives to "build houses and the like" could help inflate the same bubble that burst last year. And infrastructure spending has been one area where Congress has consistently exhibited an impressive bipartisan determination to do the wrong...
...Let's face it: fiscal stimulus is a frustratingly inexact science. Nobody knows precisely what it will do in the short term, and in the long term, it isn't that different from any other government spending, except that the point of the spending can be the spending itself. As always, there will be winners and losers; it's impossible to stimulate everyone equally. In two years, if the recession is over, skeptics will claim it would have ended regardless of the stimulus. If it lingers, proponents will credit the stimulus for preventing a drearier outcome. As with the first...
...overcrowding and other safety violations, plans to train local government officials to monitor and report unsafe vessels, and will provide ferry captains with additional training in typhoon avoidance. Ferry operators who ignore the rules will face steeper fines and punishment, says Bautista. "You just need the political will to let them know, This time you will not get away with it," she says. "I don't think people should be dying because of negligence...