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...David J. Wright...
...planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York Times. "They were models for the other kids." Said a former teacher at Edmund's funeral: "Edmund's life was a symbol of success to all those who had encouraged, supported, coached and applauded as he began his long climb up the rough side...
...meaning beneath their inert stylishness, and they exude a creepy sense of the disconnectedness of things. He has developed a way, as in Miner, 1984, of dissolving conventional images of conflict (the slumped miner of the title is a '30s icon of labor, as the outlines of Frank Lloyd Wright's mushroom columns from the S.C. Johnson building are, literally, "capital") and then working them back in layers of visual-verbal puns and allusions. Thus the brutally splintered cafe tabletops anchored to the painting's surface work both as echoes of the capitals and as suggestions (presented like comic- strip...
...prime Rostenkowski target will be tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Fairness is not his only motive. A chief defender of oil and gas interests in the House is Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, who also happens to be ! Rostenkowski's main rival to succeed O'Neill when he steps down as Speaker after next year. To defeat the heavily favored Wright, Rostenkowski may try to paint him as the captive of fat cats...
...prime Rostenkowski target will be tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Fairness is not his only motive. A chief defender of oil and gas interests in the House is Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, who also happens to be Rostenkowski's main rival to succeed O'Neill when he steps down as Speaker after next year. To defeat the heavily favored Wright, Rostenkowski may try to paint him as the captive of fat cats...