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Does the poet's work redeem the poet's mess? Sexton was working in a rich literary tradition. Her immediate American predecessors were not a wholesome precedent: John Berryman (alcoholic, suicide), Robert Lowell (episodically psychotic), Delmore Schwartz (alcoholic), Theodore Roethke (manic-depressive), Elizabeth Bishop (alcoholic). Sexton had shrewd instincts. "With used furniture he makes a tree," she wrote. "A writer is essentially a crook." Maybe...
ESSAY Lance Morrow on Anne Sexton's posthumous mess...
...York State pays one of the lowest proportions of Medicaid bills in the nation. This means financially strapped localities pick up much of the tab. Faced with an even worse fiscal mess than Cuomo, aides to New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins have often loudly hoped that the state would assume more of the fair burden. And it looked this summer as though Cuomo finally agreed. One fine morning, however, the governor said "there's no chance" of a state takeover...
...America loves him. He mumbles and bumbles about prudence and patience and somehow ends up looking tough, thoughtful and firmly in control. Bush is no Teflon man. He's more like a porcupine--mess with him politically, and you'll get hurt...
...speech Thursday to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Administration and Finance Secretary Peter Nessen said spending restraint is still needed to keep the state from falling back into a fiscal mess...