Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first Republican in a decade who doesn't want to blow up the Education Department and padlock the IRS. He wants to spend a trillion dollars of the surplus to let people invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, yet he promises not to cut benefits, in which case there's no spare trillion lying around to pay for it. He blasts Gore for proposing more new spending than at any time since the Great Society - except that he is doing the same...
This critical connection between the "Idea" or artistic visualization and its materialization in "form" is important for the analytic sensibility of the exhibition. Enlisting a work of art for a cause, arguably outside the field of the discrete work, seems to make it easier to cut out the artist, to make the art stand for something else. Directly opposing that kind of conception, the emphasis on the creative act recalls the artist. The exhibit emphasizes that art is crafted. As for the analytic sensibility, coupling the artist with the art serves to isolate the identity of the work...
...comeback special. Burt Reynolds had Boogie Nights. It's inevitable. And now Bette Midler has her TV sitcom and her new album, both entitled Bette. The less said about the show, the better. If anyone can salvage it, Bette Midler can, but she has her work cut out for her. As for the album, you're better off sticking with her past efforts. As I listened to Bette, several songs seemed vaguely familiar, as if I'd heard them in an elevator or a department store. You know the kind of music-it's what they advertise on the radio...
...Greenspan may even cut by a quarter point, which brings us to the flip side of the equation. What if the "soft landing" is a skidding halt? The markets, having just gotten hard evidence of the slowdown they've been waiting for, may find that next week is an excellent time for those doubts to start cropping up. What's ailing the markets these days is uncertainty - over oil prices, the Middle East, the election, you name it. After November, oil prices, with their power to cause not only stagnation but also inflation and political meddling, will likely...
...person who does the interview to make a case for the interviewee," Worf says. "It's very rarely clear-cut--there are some tough decisions that have to be made...