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...Brightest" man to throw the nation into a decade of turmoil, destroying a whole generation physically and psychologically. Seeing the mistake snowballing into a tragedy, wise people cried out, protested, and ended up suffering the most. McNamara caused it all, then left office, took the helm of the Ford Motor Company and went to the World Bank, where he became an excellent leader again, and is now safe and sound, his hair still slicked back as 30 years ago. Hey, think about that song. "Only The Good Die Young...
...among other things, spending more on public works, which would presumably stimulate the economy and thus perk up demand for imports. But American economists reacted as if they had seen it all before. "If Japan really wanted to knock down the yen, they'd give in on motor vehicles," said Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros...
...also eager to itemize their profligacy. No Broadway musical has cost as much as $20 million, and if it did, no Broadway producer would say so. But Vegas is a place where gamblers brag about their winnings, and their losings. Liberace--the patron saint of Gaud Almighty--used to motor onstage in his Rolls-Royce and declare that the Riviera Hotel was paying him $50,000 a week; he was like a child showing his mother a report card full of A's. Same with the Vegas master builders...
...best piece in the show, both horribly vivid and weirdly distanced, is the room-size Carousel, 1988. Four motor-driven arms swing on a pivot. From each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more...
...bookstore-coffee bar, but it must be the least demanding job in America. The series established its lazy pace on its first episode last spring, in which Ellen (played by stand-up comic Ellen DeGeneres) had to renew her driver's license. Waiting in line all day at the motor-vehicle office is most people's idea of hell. Ellen actually got a friend to wait there with her. Anybody here got a life...