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...archaeological images blown up to "American" size. On a flat ground, flat pictographs: Ariadne holding her thread, Theseus as a stick figure with spear, a Minotaur. This primitivism is meant to suggest a heroic Aegean prehistory, a lost age when sibyls muttered in every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks of myth, the ornamental posing as the archetypal. Of course, one could say much the same about some of Paul Klee's output-to name...
...weeks later, Ronald Reagan and the supporters of the unorthodox theory of supply-side economics took office. The new President vowed to stimulate business by slashing taxes, even though some critics said that such a move at a time of high inflation would cause prices to spiral still faster. Reagan responded that he would curb inflation by cutting the U.S. budget, and urged the Federal Reserve Board to maintain tight control of the money supply. Moreover, the President asserted that when investors saw prices leveling off, they would lower the return they demanded for their money, and thus interest rates...
Leaf added that doctors have an important role in defusing the nuclear arms spiral. "We're trained in order to be responsible for the health of our country," he said...
Forty seconds into the second quarter--with Yale up, 7-0--Rogan dropped back, and lofted a perfect spiral to Grieve slicing behind Coppinger and into the right corner of the end zone. That one hurt, coming on the play immediately following a Crimson fumble...
Just 79 seconds later, Rogan struck again. He hit Grieve ("I'm not that fast, you know, but I can really leap") with a spiral on a post pattern just short of the goal line and the senior split end (by day's end the Yale record holder in single-season reception yardage, and touchdowns as well as career receptions) stepped into the end zone for the score. Tony Jones' PAT made it 14-0, and the Elis never looked back. They didn't have to, because nobody was really gaining on them...