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...Stan Brakhage (whose work is currently in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) is the fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence of Davis work...
...exciting to think about these possibilities to tap and unleash the talent in this country," Kemp said. "And I'm very optimistic. After all, how can you play quarterback in the NFL for thirteen years and be a pessimist...
That could prove to be an understatement. Brown, 61, is up against incumbent Frank Jordan, 60, a former police chief who came to office as a pro-business "non-politician," and Roberta Achtenberg, 45, a former Assistant Secretary of hud and lesbian activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like...
...than stand-alone bills debated openly on the floor of Congress. And many more are tucked away in budget reconciliation bills that will whiz through Congress in the next several weeks. The riders include directives to the Environmental Protection Agency forbidding it to issue standards for measuring arsenic in tap water or to list new hazardous waste sites for cleanup. Hansen has sponsored a rider that sets up a commission to consider closing some of the 368 parks and other sites run by the National Park Service. He has said as many as 150 of them could...
Both sides spent fortunes to sway the jury with testimony from scientific experts. The crucial difference was that the defendants had corporate treasuries to tap, whereas Schlichtmann and partners had to borrow heavily, not only to pay for medical and hydrology studies but also to keep up appearances. Anything less than the leading experts or the best hotels and restaurants might signal that they could not go the distance...