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Chaplin was an improviser. He would order up a huge set or an elaborate mechanical prop (like The Floorwalker's escalator, the comic potentials of which we watch him explore) with only the vaguest notion of what he might do with it. Then, with all his co-workers assembled, with Chaplin doing detailed demonstrations of their pantomime ("he became me," Cherrill remembers) and working up the long, intricate comic lines that are his art's hallmark, the cameras would turn. And turn. And turn some more, through hundreds of takes. For it was only by studying what Chaplin...
M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow argues that most of the industrial-policy schemes under discussion would amount to a prop-up-the-losers approach that he calls "lemon socialism." As an alternative, Thurow suggests that the U.S. emulate to some degree...
...part of his fiscal year 1984 local aid package, Dukakis had originally proposed a modification of Prop 2 1/2 that would have allowed the 11 large cities to delay one half of the required property tax cuts for one year with a city council vote. Currently, any postponement of Prop 2 1/2 requires a city-wide referendum...
...entire package won immediate approval in the State Senate. But in the House, a Republican attack on the Prop 2 1/2 override led to a successful vote to eliminate the provision...
Many State House observers have quietly said that the Dukakis administration badly miscalculated the intensity of public opposition to any change in Prop 2 1/2, which passed by a two-thirds margin the 1980 vote. As one explained last week, the package's planners failed to see the symbolic nature of the change, instead only considering it as a solution to a cash-flow problem...