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Acceptance of Taylor's music is a somewhat embarassing process. What makes it so is the emotional extremes that it insistently conveys. Yet the result of acceptance is revelation, plain and simple. Cecil Taylor's music is not ugliness made art; rather, it is the essence of beauty revealed...
Though he can be meanspirited (suggesting that Democrats are somehow responsible when a woman in South Carolina admits to drowning her two young sons) and just plain goofy (sponsoring a bill to apply U.S. law to space colonies), Gingrich is providing the energy, imagination and confidence that, at least at this pregnant moment, seem lacking among other leaders of both parties. The new Speaker will gavel the House down to real work three weeks earlier than usual. He will move immediately to slash congressional staff and change the way it operates. He will seek speedy passage of a balanced-budget...
...spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed: "The traditional bipartisanship of the NGA is breaking down," said Doug Richardson of the DGA. On the Republican side, though, a spokesman for Tommy Thompson, Republican of Wisconsin and vice chair of the NGA, says the Democrats are just plain jealous. "It's just the way that the game is right now," Kevin Keane told TIME Daily. "The Republicans are in charge...
Weld met yesterday with Rep. John E. McDonough (D-Jamaica Plain), who had shepherded the original plan through the legislature. Weld adamantly opposed two of McDonough's suggestions: the continuation of rent control boards and of vacancy decontrol plans, in which units are removed from rent control when their occupants leave. Boston and Brookline currently have vacancy decontrol programs...
...simplistic catarsis of xenophobic, Afro-centrist discourse is just plain useless...