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...proposes to raise taxes on the six-figure crowd, though by no means up to pre-Reagan rates, while imposing a grossly regressive energy or sales tax on the average consumer. It offers earned-income tax credits for the poor but makes up for this leftish move with a surfeit of new tax breaks for business. It's an attempt, in other words, to mix L.B.J., Reagan and Ross Perot -- which is why it comes out as such a flavorless gruel...
Consequently, to go through this show only once produces surfeit. It demands repeated visits, and at the end of each you are called back, not only by the splendor of the works but also by a sort of postcoital regret provoked by the contrast between the achievements of 16th century Venetian art and the sad entropy of our own fin de siecle...
...surfeit of tabloid video: three shows about Amy Fisher...
Last year, as a first-year starter, she played all 1,390 minutes of the season in the pipes. This year, she has already played 1,119 minutes, all but 20 minutes in a season which has seen a surfeit of overtime games...
...name I had heard in passing--Anna something. She ran a one-woman show. A woman with a surfeit of hats: actor, writer, performance artist. "Fires in the Mirror...