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...badly needed a vehicle to avoid dwelling on the depressing but pressing problems of budget deficits and unemployment and to regain domination of the political debate. The White House, therefore, beefed up the federalism idea to give the second-act curtain raiser of the Reagan presidency a show-stopping wallop. Says one adviser: "We thought of it as another go-for-broke idea, a big idea, another way in which Reagan could shape the national agenda...
Edwin Landseer, seen afresh, had wallop with the pathos
...Hamlyn and Joseph Rishel-soon makes clear that Landseer was more than a "mere" sentimentalist. To see him after such long disfavor is to see him afresh, and his affinities with other artists now seem more striking than his provincialism. Some of his hunt scenes have a positively Rubenesque wallop and energy, and his feeling for "sublime" landscape-the misty crags and glens of the Highlands-connects him to northern European romanticism, in particular to Caspar David Friedrich. When he let his sense of nature as a ground of elemental conflict speak directly, uninflected by sentiment, he produced...
...abused his office by accepting a secret share in a Virginia titanium mine, attempting to obtain a $100 million loan for the venture, and promising to use his influence to secure government contracts for the mine and immigration papers for the bogus sheik. His conduct, said Chairman Malcolm Wallop, "was ethically repugnant to the point of warranting his expulsion...
...cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World War II. The Pentagon has decided to switch to the 9-mm because it will use ammunition standard among other NATO countries, will be lighter (roughly 2½ lbs.) than the .45 and pack nearly the same wallop. One other attraction cited by the Pentagon: the 9-mm will be "easier for women to deal with." The .45, which cost $25 in 1911, sold for $45 during World War II. Since the 9-mm model has yet to be chosen, and competitive bidding is still open, the Army does...