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...woman in these songs drags her notorious past around as if it were a fur coat worn too long in the rain. She is someone who has done everything and now wants to feel anything. Each disappointment is a station of the cross leading to a Calvary with no payoff: "Ashes to ashes, rust to dust, this is what becomes of us" (Primitive). At the end she is withered, regretful, a little wiser, like a Samuel Beckett creature on her deathbed. She knows this last journey will be a vacation: "Dying is easy. It's living that scares...
...Foods, the state's largest business employer. Tyson and his family have contributed heavily to Clinton's campaigns and provided free transportation to the Governor and his wife in company planes -- an example of the frequent chumminess between Southern Governors and major industrialists. Environmentalists generally doubt that any crude payoff is involved. They think Clinton genuinely -- though in their view, mistakenly -- fears that strict environmental regulation will cost the state badly needed employment. Says Tom cKinney, director of Northwest Arkansas Guardianship, an environmental organization: "Jobs are paramount...
...extreme density of color and, unlike in traditional pottery, a relentlessly inorganic and sinister look to his "eggs," enameled clay shells with weird lobes like giblets or tongues merging from fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with sharply cut surfaces of an eye-straining chrome yellow in which a perfectly square black hole opens on the mysterious emptiness inside...
...respect and funding. Certainly Linus Pauling lost much of his Nobel-laureate luster when he began championing vitamin C back in 1970 as a panacea for everything from the common cold to cancer. Drug companies too have been leery of committing substantial energy and money to studies, since the payoff is relatively small: vitamin chemical formulas are in the public domain and cannot be patented...
...begin, of course, by spending some of the $745 million in technical aid that Washington has planned for the next two years. The real payoff, says Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, may eventually come "from small-scale private initiatives. But I also think we need to commit ourselves in a visible way, so the world understands we are engaged in the process of democratization in the former Soviet Union...