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Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler today retracted statements that New York Gov.George Pataki, the rookie Republican who bested Mario Cuomoin November, was a "quasi-governor," or -- as Fowler then elaborated -- "half-assed." The apology for his remarks Tuesday came after New York's senior Democrat, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, took the Senate floor hours later to offer his own apology for Fowler's "inexcusable conduct." Fowler made the remarks while criticizing Pataki for his proposed "tax cuts to the rich...
...most inane and hypocritical aspects of Jews and Blacks do not lie in the authors' resistance to such a quasi-conservative agenda, but their denial that it is even morally legitimate. Lerner criticizes the great Jewish defection from liberalism as fundamentally anti-Jewish, attempting to restrict his people's political freedom. He writes: "It is only if Jews can stay connected to our task as witnesses to God's presence and hence as witnesses to the possibility of transformation from the ethos of selfishness to the ethos of caring (what I call a 'Politics of Meaning') that retaining...
...first film in the series--centered upon the First Commandment, "I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other God but me," --is a haunting examination of faith. An atheistic father has a quasi-religious faith in technology, while his bright young son, Pavel, shows a precocious aptitude for computers. Pavel's mother is working abroad, and he is caught between his father's influence and that of his Catholic aunt. Although fascinated with computers, Pavel is still questioning; he hasn't made up his mind about God or the world. Opposing faiths...
...Trio of the third movement revealed the Borromeo's only substantial weakness. When the texture of this classical work thinned to only one or two instruments, the players failed to fill the space left by the tuttis. Despite the intimacy of these solo and quasi-solo sections, the instruments must expand their scope to aid the continuity of the piece; one should still feel that a quartet is on the stage...
Since Picasso's Guernica, few artists had attempted historical commentary. Robert Rauschenberg did in his silkscreen paintings of the early '60s, and so did James Rosenquist with big quasi-dioramas like The F-111, his reflection on the Vietnam War. Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter...