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...balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced checkbook might have carried a lot more weight in both the country and in Congress had he not won office two years ago with a promise to reduce the deficit without raising taxes. It was precisely such claims -- that there is a free lunch after...
Last night marked the opening of Eric Overmyer's On the Verge: or the Geography Yearning, a fantastical paean to language, imagination and the spirit of the future which he terms "yearning." Director Carl Bj Fox ventures into challenging theatrical territory with a flawed text and emerges with a wordy but well-executed production...
Such a reaction against impressionism was strong among younger painters of the 1880s. They were led by Georges Seurat, whose Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86, is a manifesto of anti-impressionist aims: a hieratic, pseudoscientific, heavily theorized paean to timelessness, edged with mordant social irony about the mechanization of bourgeois life. For some it made sensuous pleasure look like an insufficient message for art. Impressionism was gaining no new adherents and losing some of its original ones: Sisley had run out of steam by the '80s, and Pissarro had gone over to the younger...
...This was the trumpeter's last concert, taped just two weeks before he fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at age 58. But forget the quirky timing: Baker's full-throated horn never sounded better, and his poignant vocal on My Funny Valentine is an unforgettable paean to lost youth...
...with the abundant talk of wine and women, the John Tower controversy last week could have had a song: Stand By Your Man. Tammy Wynette's paean of loyalty to hard-drinking, two-timing guys would have made perfect background music for George Bush as he pledged devotion to his apparently hopeless nominee for Secretary of Defense. But it could also have served as theme music for Republicans rallying around their wounded leader...