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...Fuji, or flew across an ocean singlehandedly, but Buffett ascribes to them the old allure of glory, bravery, and unadulterated accomplishment He harks back to the days when people were more innocent--more easily deluded, the cynics will say--when there was no People Magazine to pry the lid off luminaries' private lives, thus preventing the public from being led astray by their admiration for less-than-saintly individuals. Romance may not be realistic--but it's nice...
...playing 'Mother, may I?' with federal bureaucrats," said Colorado's Democratic Governor, Richard Lamm. At the same time, a common Republican view was expressed by Indiana Governor Robert Orr, who contended: "A New Federalism is a must or else we'll just blow the lid off the cost of these programs...
WALTHAM--As 200 demonstrators noisily marched and chanted slogans like "put the Lid on Liddy," Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy last night denounced the "illusions", under which he said most American people live...
...ruling was the latest blow to the ballyhooed reform scheme enacted by Congress ten years ago to clean up presidential and congressional elections. In 1976 the high court first ruled that the reforms could not constitutionally limit independent expenditures. At the same time it removed a lid on how much of their own money candidates could spend to get elected. That suit was brought by a surprising coalition, including James Buckley and Eugene McCarthy. But the first ruling did not deal with independent groups supporting presidential candidates who choose to accept public financing. Such candidates voluntarily accept curbs on their...
...view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano. The body image is confirmed particularly in a work like Untitled #45, which is haunted by the swollen, vegetative forms of 1930s Picasso, rather than 1914 Matisse. Of course, the drawings also seem more intimate than the previous Ocean Parks simply because they are drawings-smaller...