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...White House, Clinton gave some dire predictions about the U.S. "Ten years from now, if we don't change present policies": budget deficits exceeding $650 billion a year, or more than double even today's bloated figures; and a national debt equal to 78% of the country's total output of goods and services. But to many people that might seem a rather dry statistical apocalypse and not exactly imminent; the President cannot really point to any awful calamity likely to strike next week or next year. Similarly, Clinton in his town-hall television appearance last week sketched the joys...
...markets are sometimes a fun-house mirror of the economy, but now they seem to be reflecting the real world without too much distortion. To cite only some figures released last week: new orders to factories rose 5.3% in December; sales of new houses gained 6.3%; worker productivity, or output per man-hour, leaped 2.7% in 1992 for the biggest gain in 20 years. In spite of continuing layoffs at some of the country's largest employers, even the job market looks suddenly brighter. The months of what has ironically been termed "jobless prosperity" may be ending: unemployment in January...
...late a certain desperation has entered Koons' output -- or so one might judge from a series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome...
...weirdest talent in the show, because it is the most epic, obsessive and totally self-referential in its mixture of sadistic violence and kitsch daintiness, belongs to the Chicago recluse Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist...
...Administration." And there really were indications that the economic upturn George Bush had so often promised had finally begun -- just in time for Bill Clinton to reap the political benefit. Gross domestic product leaped up at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, returning total output of goods and services to the pre-recession pace of mid-1990. Strong increases were registered by consumer spending, business investment, orders for durable goods, sales of existing houses and consumer confidence, while new claims for unemployment compensation have been showing a consistent decline. Any one of these figures might...