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...positive side of Community membership, such as the grants and subsidies Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only 33% of Britons consider membership "a good thing." Nevertheless, domestic politics had much to do with why Thatcher changed her stand. Her handling of the 17-week-old coal miners' strike, which has produced...
Johnson and his supporters admit to considerable drug problems in Area B. but they blame the crime rate on declining police budgets. Fewer police means more crime and, Johnson's supporters argue. officers at the top unfairly become scape goals...
...twelve, Liang Heng found wall posters in a public square denouncing his father as a "foreigner's dog" and a "thoroughly capitalist newsman. "His father, Liang Shan, had become one of the scape goat intellectuals of the 1966 Cultural Revolution. In tears, Heng ran home to demand of his father "Is it true that you're a bloodsucker?" His father could only respond with "You should always believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang...
...best of his land scape work Welliver has an emotional intensity that goes beyond the ordinary limits of realism in painting. Shadow is a stand of birches in snow: strong blue sky peeping through their pale trunks, and more blue scattered in the luminous dark clefts of the snow lying on fallen brush. Just above the middle of the painting, the shadow line of a ridge falls across the trees and the ground. The hill behind you becomes a silent, extraordinary presence: not menacing, not metaphorical, but a sign of what the Middle Ages called natura naturans: nature disclosing itself...
Erks' territory is also a modern land scape of bleak mining towns, rundown homesteads and rural junkyards. Keeble resonantly plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...