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Bernard Wolfman, a Harvard law professor, cites the example of an expensive restaurant in Washington, "right in the shadow of the IRS," where he and a group of other lawyers were given signed tax receipts for their dinner, and then saw that the amount had been left blank, to be filled in according to the diner's conscience. "Face it," says Wolfman, "waiters in nice restaurants are serving people they know are deducting the bills racked up in those places. Lower-and middle-income people are not dumb just because they don't have loopholes. They know...
...details the "lengthening shadow" of Soviet power...
...defense budget heads toward a showdown in Congress and Deployment Day for Europe's new missiles approaches, the Pentagon last week once again emphasized in stark terms the menacing force the West must counter. "The facts are clear," warns a new Defense Department document. "The lengthening shadow of Soviet military power cannot be wished away or ignored...
...even Elvis, whose long and mighty shadow so often shaded Jerry Lee, has ever been so honored. Presley records have become fairly random collections of ill-assorted tracks. Albert Goldman's 1981 biographical pillaging gut-shot the King on the first page and left him to bleed for 590 more. Jerry Lee, still touring, still recording, still hellacious, has lucked into a much better deal. Two years ago, Nick Tosches wrote a definitive rock biography, Hellfire, that plunged right to the glowing white heart of Lewis' Pentecostal furies and set down forever all of Jerry...
...great artist is reborn at the hour of his death. His works cast a larger and more durable shadow than the man who wrote them. So it will prove with Thomas Lanier Williams, a.k.a. Tennessee, who choked to death in Manhattan last week (after swallowing the cap of a medicine bottle). With the debatable exception of Eugene O'Neill, he was the greatest playwright in U.S. dramatic history...