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...bunch of Stones who recently scrounged around and came up with the non-greatest hits album, Sucking in the Seventies. The collection, drawn mostly from the Black and BlueSome Girls-Emotional Rescue trilogy, lacks the bad-assed tone that once inspired you to embroider a red lips-and-toungue patch on a down parks, and has only faint traces of the weary, but often witty attitude of the past several years. Sucking is not a comprehensive summary of the Stones in the Seventies; they were better than this on everything from Sticky Fingers to the unjustly criticized Goats Head Soup...
Glassman quickly scanned the notes, letters and committee reports, but they were mostly in code. Then a guerrilla leader's letter mentioned an effort by "the Esmeralda management" to help patch up a factional split among the guerrillas. A second letter openly thanked a Cuban official for his assistance in ending the dispute...
Such "radical" developments were underwritten by an appeal to older systems of art, not only to the Japanese print-makers, whose cutting into the wooden block provided the essence of division between line and patch, but also to French masters like Ingres, with his steadfast differentiation between color and drawing...
...accomplishments than their ideologies. The President-elect seems to be trying to assemble a team that would please, if not delight, both the party's moderates and its right-wingers. But the struggle to find the right mix - and men who could accept the jobs - was the first patch of trouble that the Californian has encountered since his surge to win the election. Ronald Reagan got a whiff last week of what life in Washington will be like...
...past five years, while oil's slice has slipped from 23% to 20%. Electricity heats 17% of the nation's homes, with the remainder warmed by solar power, wood and propane gas. Last year 365,000 homes were converted to gas, mostly in the patch of Northern states stretching from Maine to Michigan, where oil usage is heavy; this year almost 400,000 homes are expected to switch. As much as 95% of the changeovers are conversions from...