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Alfred Hitchcock was awfully fat, but his face betrayed none of the joyous gluttony of our other great obese director, Orson Welles--a loquacious whale who would swallow the world. In Hitchcock's films, food was often associated with guilt; it was a sign of indulgence. Hitchcock was a perverse brat buried in mounds of stolid grey flesh--our naughtiest virtuoso...
Fitzgerald said publishers face a dilemma in choosing between writing history to please the majority and "asking the majority to swallow what the minority thinks is good for their children," and often write "marketplace history" as a result...
...taxicab in Washington with two men. Neither recognized the Arkansas Democrat and they began discussing their work as paid consultants to the Federal Government. The topic: How much they should bill a particular agency for their services$12,000 or $25,000? They decided that the bureau would swallow the higher fee without complaint and so, right there in the cab, they settled...
What is needed is a long-range plan to bring the growth of federal spending under control. That can hardly be done without some trimming of the entitlement programs, which not only swallow 77% of the whole budget but are inexorably rising. That is because most of them are tied to the consumer price index. Social Security benefits, for example, will rise 13% this year because the CPI rose 13% in 1979. That creates a vicious circle: inflation increases federal spending, which increases deficits, which increases inflation. Several experts have proposed limiting the tie between prices and benefits...
Despite all the careful orchestration, the partial list of potential cuts that emerged by week's end was not impressive. The White House ordered its budgeteers to try for only a $5 billion whack out of the entitlement programs-a timid move, since these programs swallow 77% of the entire budget and are rising at a dizzying pace. One option that Administration officials say they are considering is to slow the rise in Social Security benefits by modifying the formula that ties those benefits to the Consumer Price Index. That brought an outburst that typified the inflation fighters...