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...through engravings, above all, that Mantegna was able to reimagine classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art. The mountainous folds of skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into...
...chill is spreading across the U.S. as the end of the cold war pushes military contractors into the sharpest cutbacks since World War II. Still reeling from the loss of 200,000 jobs since Ronald Reagan's military buildup peaked in 1987, the industry could lose 500,000 more jobs by 1995. "There's going to be a rapid shrinkage in the next 36 months," says Howard Rubel, who follows defense and aerospace for the C.J. Lawrence securities firm. "Whole divisions are going to vanish. Long-term planning now means 'How are we going to get people out the door...
...members of the E.C. altered course last week. President Bush hinted that he would recognize the republics, provided independence was achieved peacefully. In Europe, where public sympathy for the secessionists runs high, Germany made the sharpest U-turn. "Countries cannot be held together by tanks and force," said Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He warned Belgrade that an attack on Slovenia or Croatia could affect German economic aid to Yugoslavia, which last year totaled $550 million. Britain, France and Italy are also considering joining the Western swing toward recognition...
...highest-rated evening newscast (World News Tonight), the only established late-night analysis program (Nightline) and the deepest bench of star correspondents. During the war, that army of talent simply outgunned its rivals. The network boasted the most coolly authoritative anchor (Peter Jennings), the sharpest interviewer (Ted Koppel) and the best military analysts (Tony Cordesman, General Bernard Trainor). For lucid wrap- ups of the day's events, ABC was the place to turn -- and judging from its wide lead in evening-news ratings during the most heavily watched weeks, the place most people did turn. When ABC ran a late...
...book's sharpest commentary is reserved for Washington. In the city Lemann describes, the real corridors of power are the margins of agency memos, where bureaucrats fight a war of ideas in scribbled asides. The Promised Land is indispensable for understanding how the War on Poverty advanced along the wrong front, favoring panaceas like community action and higher welfare payments while devoting too little attention to job creation. In the end, Lemann insists, the federal effort had its greatest impact by employing ghetto blacks in antipoverty agencies. For many that government paycheck was their ticket out of the ghetto...