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...will take 10 years to fill them -- it makes little sense to add tax incentives to encourage more building. Bush no doubt wants to shore up the sagging fortunes of developers and the home values of middle-class voters, but it is hard to see how adding more mini-malls and * office complexes to the landscape will help either constituency. One leading G.O.P. official, grimacing at the size of the real estate tax break, described Bush's proposals to let real estate "investors" write off their losses on new buildings against other income as "insane." An aide to House majority...
...Dylans do deviate--once--from their formula of upbeat electric rockers. Sadly, the result is the monotonous "(Don't Cut Me Down) Mary Quant in Blue," which features an early eighties dance pop groove, a sound last heard on the $100 Yamaha Porta-Sound PSS-470 mini-keyboard that Uncle Harry gave me for Hanukah. So much for fancy production...
Burns is best known for his hugely successful mini-series The Civil War. But this season viewers are getting a chance to see the full breadth of his talent. His first new work since The Civil War debuted in September 1990, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, will be telecast on PBS this Wednesday. On the same night the public network will rerun his Oscar-nominated 1981 film, Brooklyn Bridge. Two more of Burns' films will be shown in July, and his entire oeuvre has been released on videocassette by Direct Cinema...
There's more to come. Burns is working on a mini-series on the history of baseball, scheduled to air in 1994. He is overseeing (though not personally producing) another major historical series, on the American West. He is also planning a series of 60- and 90-minute biographies of American historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark...
...months before Gary Hart challenged the moralistic conventions of political behavior and paid the price for his apostasy, he wrote a mini- autobiography designed, apparently, to portray himself as normal. The last paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...