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...most temperamental femme fatale? What movie star can most quickly bring a lump to your throat? Whose acting skills can make you gasp in admiration? Who is the fanciest dude on the screen today? Enough. The questions are too easy, and you already know that the answers are not Cybill Shepherd, William Hurt, Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy...
...contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs and wakes long enough to speak: "Man, what would happen if Richard Nixon turned on? I mean, if he just had one joint, man--he'd call the whole thing off..." and out again, a dormouse, a lump of cloth once animate but no more, and turning to contemplate the mystery of a consciousness come and gone I to realize, thinking to my self: holy shit, I'm driving, and turning to the wheel a panic of road-leaving, a blurry desert scene suspension-crunching horror flash...
...clear was where she could take this quasi-heraldic imagery if she was going to hold on to her roots in pictorial minimalism. One soon found out. Rothenberg clung to the human figure, presenting it as a collection of parts, signs and & fragments: an open mouth, a lump of head, or a set of sequential images of a reaching arm that seemed to stutter across the canvas in a condition of terminal insecurity. The work looked muffled, ineloquent and infrangibly sincere. There was an intriguing contrast between the toughness of her pictorial means and the anxiety they suggested...
Expository writing does not inspire such necessary confidence. I walked in there an innocent with faint dreams of being a writer and I slid out a quivering lump that grew queasy at the sight of a pencil. I wasn't alone in my shame--others in my section and in other sections found their illusions of talent dissolved into thin...
Sources close to the talks said the GM pact closely parallels the one that the U.A.W. and Ford reached in September. That contract gave Ford workers a 3% wage hike in the first year, along with 3% lump-sum payments in both the second and third years. Far more important to the U.A.W. was the issue of job security. The Ford deal imposed a moratorium on plant closings and barred layoffs for any reason other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will...