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...level of carbon monoxide in the air." Growth, he repeats, is the best solution to poverty. Beckerman jokes that he would like to retire from the growth debate, but cannot just now because "the zero-growth merchants have been creeping back." He believes that their case is still pure rubbish. "What is so sacred about zero?" writes Beckerman in the British weekly New Statesman, attacking his liberal critics. "Why not some negative growth rate like minus the square root of seven...
Fiscal Crimes. Ambler sets these two adversaries down in a Mediterranean villa and proceeds to complicate an already tangled web. Firman's task is to feed Krom a diet of "truth, rubbish and half-truth" that will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...
...impressionists among the great color painters of the modern era. Unquestionably heir to Matisse and Klee in the realm of color expression, he is to his generation what they were to their own." This litany might have read better ten years ago than it does today; it is incantatory rubbish. Delacroix was not a "color painter" in any sense of the word that can be applied to Noland. He was a superb colorist whose art was occupied with matters other than the disinterested play of color on a flat surface. It had to do with the complexities of drawing from...
...arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions and the "disappearance" of at least 500 suspects since the coup. Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti; victims' bodies have turned up "at the bottom of lakes, decomposing in rubbish heaps or blown to pieces in quarries...
...been close to Mao before Chiang Ch'ing arrived. Rumors also claimed that Mao's marriage to Chiang Ch'ing was opposed by other party leaders who agreed to it only on condition that she stay out of politics.] Most of this was rubbish, malicious rumors possibly started by Mao's rival Wang Ming and his ilk. Nevertheless, she had something to say about...