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...price of a 1.4% increase in the inflation rate by mid-1983. Why vote for it? For one thing, highway and bridge repairs are urgently needed, and they can be financed by the gas tax without swelling deficits. For another, even a slight gas tax raise will lead to some fuel conservation. But the real motive is pinpointed with rare candor by Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts: "We're only doing this because we're desperate" to pass something that Congress and the White House can back as a jobs bill...
...desserts are simple enough so that you should not be afraid to change them to suit your own tastes. Don't be afraid to adapt and improvise. If you hate coconut, just don't add it. These recipes are for the most part, foolproof so that slight alterations, variations, or mismeasurements won't make them unappetizing...
DIED. Vinoba Bhave, 87, saintly ascetic who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's role as India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle of social reform who owned no possessions and tramped 45,000 miles barefoot around India, preaching nonviolence and soliciting contributions of land for the poor...
...least the Frank Stellas of this world. She is almost 71, French, a resident of New York City since 1938, and a mature sculptor by any conceivable definition of the word. Until quite recently not many people wanted to look at her work, and her recognition was slight, at least compared with the fame that surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups and was a complete loner; her work appeared to have a queer troglodytic quality, like something pale under a log, the vulnerable product of obsession but I with...
...doesn't mean there isn't slight friendly rivalry involved. At the beginning of the season, the two placed a bet on which would finish the year with more tackles, and which would come up with more sacks. A dinner goes to the victor in one category, drinks to the winner in the other...