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...stories, on the kind of ground he has successfully worked before: a primitive backwater populated by eccentrics and obsessives. Allie pays $400 for an abandoned jungle settlement called Jeronimo. "It's about as unimportant as a place can possibly be," he says happily. "You talk about starting from scratch. Well, Jeronimo is scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats...
That, in essence, is the message of the President's budget for fiscal 1983, the first he has planned from scratch. Ronald Reagan is calling for slashes in social spending fully as painful as those enacted last year; in fact, total nondefense spending would actually decline slightly for the first time since 1960. Reagan is asking for an increase in military spending even more rapid than his earlier estimates. And he is prepared to accept deficits perilously close to $100 billion a year rather than change his tax-cutting strategy...
...this weekend, the Tigers had to claw and scratch to eke out a 79-70 victory over the Crimson aquawomen in a meet decided by the last race...
...identify racks as the game progressed, additional falling objects were introduced?flowers, hats and beach balls. While the pedaling clown was catching or kicking these, it was decided there should be occasional hazards too: some of the thrown objects could be anvils that he would have to avoid. Scratch that, said someone; you cannot throw anvils. So eventually, bombs were substituted. (In the violent idiom of video games, this makes perfect sense...
...does mock-archaeological images blown up to "American" size. On a flat ground, flat pictographs: Ariadne holding her thread, Theseus as a stick figure with spear, a Minotaur. This primitivism is meant to suggest a heroic Aegean prehistory, a lost age when sibyls muttered in every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks of myth, the ornamental posing as the archetypal. Of course, one could say much the same about some of Paul Klee's output-to name...