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This plan isn't economic. Even its proponents have largely given up on the absurd fiction that canceling America's meager $620 million worth of cultural programs will do anything to reduce the present budget deficit of $180 billion. Not when a Senate committee last month approved a pork load for the military of $7 billion more than the Pentagon asked...
...allowed him to rescue most of the use of his left arm. But during his three-year convalescence, he developed an infection that required his right kidney to be removed. Sonograms have shown that his left kidney has, as expected, got larger in order to compensate for its increased load. (Doctors note that thousands of people live quite normally on a single kidney.) A small stone was removed from his remaining kidney in 1981, but there have been no further complications since then...
...Perhaps the show's most moving and nuanced postwar tribute to sculpture's classical past is Henri Laurens' Morning, 1944. A bronze woman awakening: it ought to be an idyllic image. But it is not, because the massive post-Cubist forms of her limbs suggest stress, a heavy, invisible load to which the energy locked in the figure responds...
...Jones County, Mississippi, for instance, the public defender's office handles about 450 to 500 felony cases a year, including death-penalty cases. Two part-time lawyers share the whole load, even though the a.b.a. recommends that each public defender handle no more than 150 noncapital felonies a year. The office's entire annual budget -- and this includes lawyers' salaries and expenses -- is $32,000. Their courtroom opponents, the Jones County district attorney's office, work with a budget seven times as large, while their case load is only about 20% greater. David Ratcliff, one of the two part-time...
...retrospect, his spiel was a load of sugar-coated manure, but it sure tasted sweet. I nibbled, and he played me like the tuna...