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...latest crisis-the fourth and worst brush with default since last spring -occurred when city officials had to come up with $477 million to redeem short-term notes, pay sanitation workers and meet other expenses-but had only $34 million in the till. This near disaster was primarily caused by a flaw in the complex $2.3 billion rescue package that the state legislature had put together last month to carry the city into December. To guarantee that the state would have help in bailing out the city, the legislature had constructed a Rube Goldberg financing scheme that offered...
...Wait till next year...
...this production works it is because of his writing. Like his stories it is flawed and evasive, but who can resist the disarming deviance of the little woman who smiles blandly at the audience and says "I never dreamed their union had been blessed with issue till their daughter stabbed the superintendent of schools...
...Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay's disk paintings of 1913. At least Kupka believed so, and remained bitter about Delaunay till the end of his life. "Exhibit, why?" he demanded of a visitor to Puteaux in the '50s. "So that everyone can copy...
...injured, with the grindings of its internal gears, a sensitive and beautiful woman. Or maybe also his suggestion, that, because this woman was endowed sensually and spiritually with qualities that transcended the simple realism of, say, another citizen or soldier, she was thus somehow justified in her utter ignorance till early-1945 of what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. One is willing to accept such a moral judgement, so long as it is premised by that initial moral assertion, that, "Yes, Nazi Germany was terrib..." The Au. is a kind and trustworthy man, after...