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Critics claim that her real goal is to slash the agency's budget and staff so deeply that it cannot function. Gorsuch has volunteered reductions in EPA spending from $1.36 billion a year when she took office to less than $950 million by fiscal 1983. A ranking official of EPA last week disclosed that Gorsuch is readying dismissal notices for at least 750 of the agency's 4,200 Washington headquarters staff and probably for a commensurate percentage of the 5,800 field staff. Those cuts would come on top of the 1,000 jobs already eliminated...
...Voulkos, now 57; a group of his pieces from those years begins the show. They record his decision-and it cannot have been an easy one 25 years ago-to apply the latent violence of abstract expressionist paint handling to the solid medium of clay: to twist, punch and slash the continuous form one expects of a pot's surface, opening it up to create the visible inner spaces that belong to sculpture. Compared with the best abstract expressionist Voulkos' sculpture (David Smith's, say), somewhat clumsy and overworked, but its impact on the art community...
...each zone would receive a battery of tax cuts and credits that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars annually. But while supporters advertise the enterprise zone plan as an economic stimulus, its massive tax-writeoffs will create few new jobs for the needy and force the Administration to slash further the support services so crucial to urban areas...
...Blasters (Slash). Hard fun and easy lyricism from five Los Angeles rockers...
...Wild Gift (Slash). Garage-band rock with no quarter given...