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...work in oil fields. It was a way of continuing the effete cure on a grander scale; the ironic thing in Bush's case is that the cure would just confirm, in some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough money to indulge his urge, under the pretext that it was done in order to make money. How little that motive was actually at work appears from the easy way he gave up the enterprise when it promised to bring in serious returns. In his autobiography, which plays down Andover and the East, the move to Texas...
Hockney was by no means the first English artist to make his homosexuality a theme of his art, but he was the first to do it in a garrulous, social way, treating his appetites as the most natural thing in the world and not, like Francis Bacon, as a pretext for reflection on Eros' power to maim and dominate. His code for the subject in the early '60s was graffiti. Flattened scrawly figures with sticks for limbs and blobs for heads, much influenced by Jean Dubuffet, populate a whole set of images from 1960 to 1963 -- Doll Boy, The Fourth...
...took negotiations at the highest level of all to assemble these pieces into the makings of an agreement. Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavik in October 1986 for one of the most bizarre encounters in the history of diplomacy. The Soviets lured the Americans to the meeting on the pretext of putting the finishing touches on a separate INF deal. When Reagan arrived, Gorbachev surprised him with a comprehensive package not just on INF, but on START and SDI as well...
Constantly demanding their rights, the inmates have gained free passage within the cellblocks and have pressured authorities to let visitors bring food and other goods. But the rebels believe the only reason the government allows them to operate this way is to provide a pretext to kill them all, in a repeat of the massacres that occurred when authorities put down Sendero uprisings in three penitentiaries in 1986. More than 250 rebels died in the incidents. Those fears were fanned last Easter, when, according to prisoners, paramilitary troops attacked the men's pavilion at Canto Grande with fire bombs...
...shortcomings in the Peterson plan. First, it seeks to bring down the deficits too fast. Peterson's goal of a $30-40 billion reduction in the first year equals a net public sector stimulus of zero, which increases the risks of recession. Second, it uses fiscal austerity as a pretext for undermining the role of government in domestic investment, especially in terms of human resources...