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...halt the production and deployment of all nuclear weapons, in a fashion that each side could verify, as a prelude to arms-reduction talks. Attacking Reagan's assertion that the U.S. needs to continue its buildup in order to force eventual arms reductions, Kennedy argued, "This is voodoo arms control, which says you must have more in order to have less...
Even when the subject is not biblical, a whiff of another world comes off many of the works: Sam Doyle's portrait of Dr. Buz, the voodoo man, getting instructions from his conch shell, or the extraordinary sculptures of charred old wood made by Jesse Aaron (1887-1979), totems and animals whose sheer metamorphic intensity would blow late Dubuffet out of any museum. The strength of Aaron's work owed everything to his belief that his task was to release the latent image from the log, where it was trapped. "God put the faces in the wood...
...Bush has established his own cells within the Administration. Indeed, Bush was so intent on proving he was a team player that he has tiptoed around the appointments process, to the dismay of his longtime supporters. Although Bush last week clumsily tried to deny that he once called Reaganomics "voodoo economics," the fact that he made the statement in 1980 is viewed by the right as proof that the Vice President is not a true believer. However, the fact that he tried to deny saying it may be even more interesting; it is an indication of the lengths to which...
...BEHIND the effusive rhetoric stands an economic program laden with contradictions. The economic "foundation" of which the president speaks is built from a grab-bag of materials, assembled hastily by economic architects who have been likened to voodoo practitioners. The president expects the public to believe that the formula for full employment is tight money and unprecedented tax breaks for corporations and the rich, garnished with huge defense outlays and sharp cutbacks in federal employment programs for good measure. The high priests of Reaganomics tell us tax breaks are critical because the country is short on investment supply--hence...
...Republican strategy of building a new worker-based coalition around supply-side policies is thus a high-risk proposition--the administration gambled not only that its "voodoo economics" would work, but also that the public would fail to see its essential duplicity. Hence, the rhetorical excesses: Reagonomics is a program that must be oversold if it is to be sold...