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...confident and plainspoken as it is here. Unlike, say, the recent mini-series Queen, Dr. Quinn is hokum without an agenda, other than re-creating some old-time TV pleasures. The town characters -- a naive telegraph operator, a good-hearted prostitute, a smoldering hunk who hangs out with a pet wolf -- are colorful in the innocent, pre-Bochco sense of the word, and the series has sweep and moral heft. (For the opening credits, the screen is even masked at the top and bottom to simulate a CinemaScope epic...
...after poll before and after the speech showed that Americans would accept higher taxes to cut the deficit. But the willingness comes with the condition that government sacrifice too, by giving up the high- calorie programs that help Congressmen get re-elected, the agencies that keep bureaucrats employed, the pet programs that have marinated in think tanks during the Democrats' years in the wilderness. "If he increases taxes simply to spend more money," says James Nowlan, president of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, "then public cynicism will only increase...
...HOBEY BAKER WATCH Goalies Player/School/Year OP W L T Pet. GAA Garth Snow, Maine...
Certainly we don't have to do anything to reduce the deficit. The deficit is going to go down anyway as the economy swings into growth. The beauty is that people are going to believe it's due to "Clinton fiscal conservatism." And with Al's pet BTU tax we get the anti-pollution cover...
...obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...