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Later in life Poussin would complain of the pressure of commissions. "Monsieur, these are not things that can be done at the crack of a whip," he wrote to his friend and patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done...
...between a problem's first appearance in fact and in someone's stump speech. New issues have indeed been able to make their way into the campaign. Neither drugs nor the environment was a deciding factor in any recent presidential race. But after a year of national concern about crack wars, followed by a summer of worry over the greenhouse effect and kindred ecological disasters, Manuel Noriega has become the favorite foreign leader of Democratic speechwriters, while Bush has taken to deploring the condition of Boston Harbor...
...pretty ugly," Jones said, "The Metropolitan District Commission has juridiction over the banks and will crack down...
...public eye. Our heart strings have been pulled, but our limits may have been reached. Larry Burrows, a war photographer who covered the Vietnam War, said it best: "What's the hardest thing of all? It's to keep feeling. Yet if you feel too much... you'd crack...
Instead of passing this timely piece of legislation, should Congressmen instead go back to their districts and tell voters, "Sorry, we decided not to try to crack down on drug abuse because we thought it would prejudice you in our favor. In the meantime, just...