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WITH THE SPECTACLE OF SEEMING CHAOS IN ITS currency markets, Western Europe is giving the rest of the world a vivid lesson in the connection between economics and politics. Eleven of the 12 European Community states have been trying to keep the value of their money linked together while pursuing divergent domestic policies and grappling with distinct national problems. Inevitably, these internal stresses -- aggravated by well-heeled speculators -- broke the E.C.'s system of guaranteed exchange rates, forcing Britain and Italy to drop...
Anyone who thinks that economists practice a dismal science has never been treated to the vivid commentaries of Allen Sinai. "It's the forces of darkness vs. the forces of light," he says, describing the tensions at play in the U.S. economy. "Hate vs. love, like in the original Cape Fear, but the love will win." Sinai, president of the Boston Co. Economic Advisors, was one of five experts who convened in New York City last week for a TIME economic forum. The meeting was part of a tradition going back to 1969, when the magazine began inviting top economists...
...back to a long tradition of representations of Bacchanalian dances, from the ancient Greeks through to Poussin. The color is almost as simple and emblematic as that of an Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed...
...last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters and punchy dialogue, and he invests the genre with the good-vs.-evil intensity of an old- fashioned western. Also, the hats are cool...
...speech and questions afterwards, Dukakis exhorted the audience to vote and to become politically involved. He painted a vivid picture of political obligations...