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Starting the Clock. New York City has a more urgent motive for quitting: the need to balance its books after its close brush with bankruptcy. Columbia University Professor Raymond Morton, staff director of a commission on city finances, concluded that New York could save as much as $183 million a year by leaving the Social Security system for two years and setting up its own program to provide death and disability benefits. But a temporary pullout would require permission from Congress, so Beame decided to "start the clock running" on the two-year notice period for a permanent defection...
...people to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," she said to test the sound equipment. A producer plucked a blond hair from her shoulder. On the chair next to Mackin was her brush, her hand-mirror and a "Transworld Getaway Guide" for Ireland...
...mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...
...cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have drawn the arc of t rainbow across the sky, unveiling the cathedral as it goes. Every surface - the mudguards of the cart no less than the slowly sliding water - sparkles with a whitish impasto, virginal and dense...
...associations made and transformations performed. Aspects of reality which would never be rationally juxtaposed are struck together--sparks fly. The typewriter eraser, for example, becomes a tornado in one series of drawings. The round rubber spins violently around the center screw (the eye of the tornado) and the trailing brush sweeps all before it, leaving a dust cloud in its wake. The seemingly innocuous object reveals itself as a force of destruction...