Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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COURT ARTS OF INDONESIA, Asia Society in New York City. Sculpture, court regalia, shadow puppets, dance masks and jewelry make up this splendid exhibition. The galleries resemble a kraton, or palace, where princes once assembled the finest treasures of the kingdom on ceremonial occasions. Through...
...generally regarded as the best way to treat the mentally ill. Attitudes changed in the 1950s and '60s as tales of abuse in giant institutions multiplied. New drugs were introduced that helped control mental illness, and a concern for the civil rights of the disturbed led state legislatures to make it difficult to commit people to hospitals against their will...
...month, has had to reduce its 15-member psychiatric staff to five. The skeleton crew has little time for outreach -- going into the streets and cajoling the mentally ill into accepting help. PET (for psychiatric emergency team) units used to respond to mental crises anytime. Now they rarely make calls after their normal 10-hour workday...
...both before any proposed solution is made public and afterward. When Bush tries to communicate with a TV audience, he often lacks confidence. More important, except when he is campaigning for himself, Bush shrinks from framing options in a stark and persuasive manner that can force people to make a choice. He often speaks of using the "bully pulpit" to get his way, but to him it means little more than "telling people how deeply you feel" instead of knocking heads together to get things done...
Bush was unmoved by Rostenkowski's appeal, as he was last month when some advisers urged him to forcefully exploit the crisis in the gulf as an opportunity to make progress on the budget. Bush did give a televised speech linking the two problems, but rather than call on all Americans to sacrifice, he proposed nearly $30 billion in new tax breaks and left the tough choices to Congress...