Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...
...bulimic gorging of mass-produced imagery that is built so firmly into our social responses by now that we cannot, or will not, see its inherent strangeness. Mach is not just a fine-art version of the reclusive hobbyist who makes Eiffel Towers or Brooklyn Bridges from a million spent matches. He wants to turn surplus against itself -- not in the friendly way of Kurt Schwitters or Robert Rauschenberg but with real bloody-mindedness. A Million Miles Away posits a world in which things are carried along, bobbing like corks, on a gross, value-free cataract of media imagery...
...their part, ATV owners warn that they will fiercely oppose Johnny-come- lately attempts to tamper with their sport. "I spent a lot of money on this thing," says Mike Leutzinger of Ironton, Mo., as he stands astride his ATV on the Black River. "Where else can you ride 'em? You can't ride 'em on the highway. You can't ride 'em in the woods. They're closing off the trails. This," says Leutzinger, pointing at the churned-up Black River...
...when they support earmarking, because new revenue sometimes just offsets money the state was already spending." Nearly $500 million annual earnings from California's lottery are designated for public schools. Yet the schools' share of the state's budget has fallen by $443 million. That general-fund money not spent on schools is available for politicians to spend (or squander) on larger staffs, salaries or pet projects...
Still, the three networks together spent $5 million on the event, according to one former network executive; shipped in 50 tons of equipment; and showcased star correspondents. All three evening news anchors -- Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw -- were in attendance. Also along were Washington heavyweights like ABC's Sam Donaldson and a morning anchor from each network: Today's Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning, America's Charles Gibson and CBS This Morning's Kathleen Sullivan. The networks built temporary studios on a balcony at the Rossiya Hotel. Soviet officials even lighted up the onion domes of St. Basil...