Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion. If you thought new American art couldn't get much worse than it was by the end of the 1980s, visit MOCA and learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths, a lower depth." The thesis of the show is that just below the sunny promotional surface of Los Angeles there is a stratum of alienation, murder, bad dreams and apocalyptic fantasies that reflect themselves inexorably...
Acceptance may be getting easier for the younger generation of the gay community, according to several panelists, who cited the existence of gay awareness programs at private high schools like Milton and Andover Academies...
...like to quote ((conservative economist)) Milton Friedman, because I'm running in the Democratic primary. But he did say the only problem he had with this proposal -- this is what I've heard, I didn't hear him, someone told me -- is that it would create so much revenue for government that he's afraid they'd spend...
...with hearings resuming in Manhattan this week before U.S. Judge Milton Pollack, all sides have incentives to reach agreement. A settlement could strengthen Milken's plea for reduction of his 10-year sentence for securities fraud; he has already served a year. And the FDIC, which represents savings and loans that failed after loading up on junk bonds, stands to receive at least $500 million. The rest of the settlement would go to defrauded investors who participated in the suits...
BORN: June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass...