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Using deficit predictions higher than the ones offered by the President, the Senator estimated that his plan would slash $320 billion from the budget over the next three years. Though Domenici's proposal would still yield a $90 billion deficit in 1983, just a shade less than Reagan's plan, the shortfall in 1984 would be $65 billion and in 1985, $55 billion. The Administration's proposal, by contrast, allows for an $82.9 billion deficit in 1984 and $71.9 billion in 1985. Even those figures seem exceedingly optimistic. The Congressional Budget Office expects the 1983 deficit...
...Anglos who were the foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade, food (cakes made from the mesquite bean) and even diapers, fashioned from the bark...
...relationship out on the working ranch, many people in San Angelo, the capital of the Texas "Big Country," have discovered that the mesquite tree is, if viewed by itself, in a certain light, capable of a surprising and almost Japanese loveliness. In sunlight, it offers a porous, feathering shade. Arriving in front of an expensive house in San Angelo, the mesquite completes a curious transition-from being a pest on the ranch to being a kind of artifact, an authenticating item of regional culture. Andy Warhol may have been working with the same general principle when he moved soup cans...
...about soldiers and their sordid love lives and has a heroine named Marie; like Die Soldaten, it is constructed in 15 self-contained, even aphoristic, scenes. Lulu-like Die Soldaten, a twelve-tone opera-similarly features a heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge he set himself was to improve upon the originals. That he failed is less a comment on his ability than a tribute to Berg's genius: Wozzeck (1922) epitomized 20th century alienation in its tale of a miserable soldier ground to pieces beneath...
This is the Depression as a dream - no breadlines, no sitdown strikes, no Dust Bowl. Cannery Row is visibly a movie set, splendidly designed by Rich ard MacDonald and photographed by Sven Nykvist a subtle shade away from the realistic. The burns and hookers who inhabit it are seen as sweet dreamers whose great preoccupation is bringing together Doc (Nick Nolte), a sometime baseball pitcher, and Suzy (Debra Winger), a reluctant "floozy" who talks tough but is as lost in fantasy as everyone else...