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The Male Glance
… when we look at faces. It’s the result of advertising combined with centuries of male-dominated image-making. … sufficient, complete, correct. The male glance is how comedies about women become chick flicks. It’s how discussions … The further you move away from white masculinity, the more points of view you have to juggle. Have you ever played that …
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Below the Bottom Line
… believed in Reaganomics and was convinced that his untried combination of programs would lead to a new prosperity. The … and it found few converts among the state and local officials who were in the best position to appraise the practical … that evolved in Washington out of compromise and expediency created a mixed economy with its rough edges softened …
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The Next Century—Can the Free Market Panacea Survice?
… In each case the United States has been locked into commitments to the United Nations and its allies to consult … whining over European aircraft and agricultural subsidies, and the tasteless attempts to force Hollywood trash … United States has evolved into a consumer-driven society of 260 million with a relatively high standard of living at the …
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The Resurrectionists
… speckled floors, and my dad, in lab coat, delivering quick comfort to people—in charge, certain. I suppose this is my … the operating table, but in their research. They needed bodies to study. Hunter was a known grave robber. … The plaque bearing Byrne’s name enumerated a few points about his life and fame. The vagaries of his death …
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The Presidency: the Office, the Man, and the Constituencies
… for use in the future. Paradoxically, much of the commentary on the nature of the constitutional order … that the President serves not only as chief executive, but also as head of state, or as symbolic and ceremonial leader … still be made politically effective; and as Neustadt again points out, presidential power in this sense is the power to …
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Song for My Father
… by little, in perfect time, as the work of the body becomes a body of work. —William Matthews, “Mingus … William Matthews and his poetry. It goes further. Both men died young after struggling with substance abuse; both were … so old,” worry composing their faces. But I knew they were also seeing their own mortality in his crumbling health, and …
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