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...under museum conditions, the essential monumentality of Smith's vision remains. Even the biggest pieces, like the disquieting Wagon I (a "personage" consisting of a rectangular helm set on a swollen belly made of two tank ends welded together, all balancing on a huge forged chassis), suggest a sense of the figure and accordingly evoke responses from one's own body. They convey forceful impressions of posture, gesture and attitude. Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls, and it may be, as various critics have pointed out, that the usual verticality of his sculptures...
...dustup over weapons policy came just as Reagan was trying to dispel a similar impression of disarray on important domestic issues. He spent much of the week grappling with ways to reduce the deficit-swollen federal budget and nudging a blue-ribbon commission toward a compromise on the politically explosive question of restoring the solvency of the Social Security system (see following stories). The air of uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan...
...Bennett puttered about his yard, cleaning up debris and casting watchful glances at the still rain-swollen Meramec River across the road. "I don't know what to think about dioxin," said the 60-year-old construction worker. "I've lived here for 13 years. The birds are still flying, dogs are still running around." Then he bent over to turn up a strip of plywood, revealing a colony of worms in the dirt. "See there. If something was wrong, do you think they'd still be living...
...reason for the uncertainty is that no one knows what causes AIDS, and there is no single laboratory test to certify its presence. AIDS usually begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them...
Reagan went to Washington believing he had a mandate for the principles and priorities he had espoused for most of his adult life. At home, the source of most evil is swollen, all-intrusive Big Government. It must be cut down, by deregulation and slashes in social spending and, above a11, by reducing taxes. Abroad, the source of very nearly all evil is the aggressive and expanding Soviet Union, which must be faced down by a rapid buildup in the armed might...