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...battling is sure to get louder. White House aides believe that the House and Senate budget resolutions will embody most of the President's recommendations for expenditure cuts, whatever those recommendations finally turn out to be. "When we get to the appropriations process, though, everything is going to be in jeopardy," says one Carter strategist. The budget resolutions merely set a target; congressional committees can and often do vote more money for specific programs than the budget resolutions allow. It is to the appropriations committees that lobbyists probably will make their loudest cries of anguish...
This is harder to do in a piano trio than in, say, a string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...
Nonetheless, Reagan is clearly telling many Republicans what they most want to hear, and if others are now sounding almost equally conservative, Reagan has been preaching his views longer and louder than anyone else. So his audiences forgive him for, or do not even notice, some remarkable misstatements that make Reagan sound at best ill informed...
...furtively at first, apprehensive. Male bodies fill the cave, twisting, punching, kissing, biting, stroking, tearing. On the wall, a giant neon American flag blinks omnisciently. A man in an executioner's leather mask watches from the side. Pacino's partner spins and flicks his blond curls. The drum pounds louder, the montage quickens, the American flag flashes, glaring like a Puritan God, a caretaker of the Judaeo-Christian sex ethic, a last warning before...
...years, longer, and perhaps louder, than anyone before, Douglas fought the tough battle in support of justice from his seat on the U.S. Supreme Court...