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...surface of Venus has never seemed very hospitable. Temperatures hover around 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, and the pressure of its atmosphere, thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, is some 90 times that of Earth's. Lead would flow like water on Venus, and water cannot have existed in liquid form for perhaps a billion years...
Similarly indignant questions are being echoed all over Louisiana. In the thick piney woods near Mansfield, in the rural, Protestant north, Duke recently gave some 150 white partisans at a local V.F.W. hall his well- modulated litany of how an inept government and its wasteful social programs are taking advantage of law-abiding middle-class folks. "There is no bigger problem we have in Louisiana and in the country than the rising welfare underclass," he told them. "We're never going to have fiscal reform in Louisiana until we have welfare reform...
...encaustic that gave his surfaces both substance and an inner glow, as if light were working its way through layers of slightly dusty translucency. You thought of it as skin. Marden was a brilliant colorist, in a very tuned-down way. His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks of terre verte, betokened nature, suggesting planes of light on sky and sea, old stone and vegetation. They had none of the inorganic chemical look of so much post-Pop American color. But their danger was that they could turn into a formula...
...then the sound of sirens shattered the Sunday peace. Joy moved to the front yard, where she was joined by neighbors and then by John, all of them craning their neck and looking for the fire. "This smoke was different from Saturday's," says John. "It was dark and thick. But I still thought it was no big deal." At noon John took a shower, thinking for the first time that he might have to take action. "Let me get some clothes on the kids," he said to himself. "Let me get my credit cards, just in case...
...sketch called "Crossover King," for example, Leguizamo satirizes Hispanics' desire to be accepted into the mainstream by playing a Latin who transforms himself into a pseudo-samurai businessman. Eyes squinting behind thick spectacles, Leguizamo lectures members of an imaginary Hispanic audience on how they too "can be Latino-free" if they just work hard enough at being Japanese. "Our computer graphics project that after only six years in the crossover program, Tito could become Toshino," he explains, "the quiet, well-dressed, manicured, well-groomed, somewhat anal-retentive overachiever who is ready to enter the job market at the drop...