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...question for Democrats is writ large: Their big tent might hold everyone, but for how long...
...question for Democrats is writ large: Their big tent might hold everone, but for how long...
...HATH HIT WRIT ALL OVER...
...earliest pieces in the show, from 1954 to 1957, are terrible--Beat coffee-shop art writ large. What enabled him to become an artist in the 1960s was junk, scraps, the offcuts and excreta of America, which he combined first into small hybrid pieces and then into whole rooms and environments. As a hunter-gatherer, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he was a whiz. He put in everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works...
...Congress mandated that the Department of Energy begin to accept nuclear waste from commercial reactors in 1998. Consumers started paying into a federal fund meant to finance a storage site. Though the Energy Department has collected $8.3 billion, no facility has been completed; in a case of NIMBY writ large, no state wants such a site in its backyard. As the nation's stockpile of spent fuel reached 30,000 tons, activists seized the issue as a way to hobble the industry, and the Energy Department announced that a permanent facility planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, wouldn't be ready...