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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...December 1987 we wrote a long piece about Trump, and I had long thought he was emblematic of the times. For that reason he was interesting to watch. Instead of declaiming on the universe, we try to pick out people or companies that more or less represent trends. I thought that Trump was a fine exemplar of financial leverage and gall, both of which were in oversupply and now are becoming scarcer...
...modernism, Marxism and nostalgia for the fresco cycles of pre-Hispanic antiquity that turned in the 1920s, under the patronage of Mexico's Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos, into the mural movement: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The special value of this show is that instead of treating these Big Three as isolated characters, it presents a dozen or more other Mexican artists of the time in some depth -- starting with the spectacularly gifted Saturnino Herran, who would certainly be as celebrated today as Rivera himself if he had not died...
More tellingly, we are unnerved by peace and seem to find it boring. When the cold war ended, we found no reason to celebrate. Instead we heated up the "war on drugs." What should have been a public-health campaign, focused on the persistent shame of poverty, became a new occasion for martial rhetoric and muscle flexing. Months later, when the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed throughout Europe, we Americans did not dance in the streets. What we did, according to the networks, was change the channel to avoid the news. Nonviolent revolutions do not uplift...
There are certainly fairer ways to spread around the cost than those in the budget compromise. The emphasis on raising regressive excise taxes, instead of the more progressive income tax, means that the middle class will, as usual, carry a disproportionate burden. The increases are not huge -- ten cents on gasoline for two years, eight cents on a pack of cigarettes within three years for example -- but, with the economy heading into a recession, they will certainly be felt by those whose incomes are already being pinched. Similarly, the plan's proposed Medicare cuts will push some of the elderly...
...Instead, the pilot continued on to Guangzhou and circled above the city's Baiyun airport for 40 minutes. After the hijacker realized that he had been tricked, he either set off the bombs or scuffled with the pilot, causing the plane to lose control. Careening down the runway, the jet sideswiped an empty Boeing 707 parked nearby and slammed on top of a Boeing 757 filled with passengers en route to Shanghai...