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...sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative Columnist George Will calls Rock...
...campuses from Maui to Massachusetts, more than 45,000 seniors are going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
This is not at all a message that the new Democrats want to send. They want to espouse less Government, not more. Protests Neoliberal Wirth: "The fact is, we already have an industrial policy. We already spend $300 billion in subsidies to industry, but it's a crazy quilt of patchwork policies. The Republicans say get rid of it. We say that's absurd. We say don't get rid of it, rationalize...
...shocks are physical. When Rauch directed Romeo and Juliet on the mainstage, he startled everyone by turning the famous balcony scene upside-down. Juliet wasn't raised above the stage; instead, she curled up under a quilt on a large mattress, while Romeo stood over her pleadingly. Later, in the Capulet fault, the audience was treated to a ghostly mirror-image of itself--a huge bank of the auditorium seats with pale corpses propped in them, staring...
...telephone charges in the wake of the divestiture. The overall goal is to transfer as much of the phone system's costs as possible to the people who use the specific services. Said FCC Chairman Mark Fowler of the rulings: "We are beginning to eliminate the crazy-quilt pricing that prevailed in a predivestiture world. My hope is that in the next two to three years we will see long-distance rates reduced...