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...reason taxes became a sharper issue is that prosperity had moved so many wage earners into the middle class, lunch-pail Democrats turned two-car suburbanites. Then inflation pushed them into ever higher marginal brackets. That immense new middle class began focusing on what government took from them, a chunk of their paychecks, instead of the things it gave them, like student loans and government-backed mortgages. In 1978 California produced the tax revolt that culminated in Proposition 13, a 57% cut in property taxes. That same year Kemp and Delaware Senator William Roth Jr. proposed a 30% across...
...Reilly dances and prances around the stage, whirling past the sputtering Ed and twirling around the nervous Pat, the audience is often brought to laughter from his cartoon-like demeanor. How could this play be anything but a comedy with someone so blatantly melodramatic, whose wit is even sharper than his bite? More importantly, how could he NOT be a vampire, since he shines with energy and vicious vivaciousness as several of his human counterparts struggle to keep their own pulses going...
...from the perspective of a gun. If I Ruled the World (Imagine That), which he performs with guest vocalist Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, presents Nas' vision of paradise as a "better livin' type of place to raise our kids in." The lyrics in It Was Written could be sharper, but the music, energetic and engaging on many tracks, helps drive his message home. --C.J.F...
Living up to its name, the Thumper Mini-Pro ($229) pounds on the back instead of rubbing it. Invented by nonpracticing chiropractor Ed Noble of Toronto, the Thumper is currently being rolled out at Sharper Image and Brookstone stores. How it works is no secret, say the experts; the device temporarily masks back pain with a more powerful sensation...
...Flowered Pitcher, circa 1899, the heavy leaf-pattern curtain on the left and the folds of white cloth below it have the same sculptural density as the fruit and the jug, with its exquisitely suggested peony design. But there, on the right, Cezanne has another white cloth, its folds sharper and more geometrical, its surface unfinished, so that you see glimpses of table through it--and the balance is suddenly perfect, despite but actually because of this shift of gear. Then there is the play between mass and instability--how the fruit in the dishes is so grandly solid, while...