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Senate actually approved something 90-0

WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed a massive $2 trillion stimulus package late Wednesday that's meant to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic for American workers and businesses.

The Senate approved the 880-page bill in a unanimous 96-0 vote. The measure would provide billions of dollars in credit for struggling industries, a significant boost to unemployment insurance and direct cash payments to Americans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/white-house-senate-reach-deal-massive-2-trillion-coronavirus-spending-n1168136

BURT BACHARACH CALLED MY HOTEL ROOM IN LOS ANGELES IN 1989 OR WAS IT 1987, SO LONG AGO.   MY PRODUCTION PARTNER WAS AT HIS WEDDING... WE DIDN'T GET TO MEET BUT THAT WAS A RUSH, SUCH A SONGWRITING GENIUS

Song of the day...should I complete my thoughts on The Look of Love (they are expansive) or Sinatra's The Summer Wind today?   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck57LnYScNQ

 Tutti abbiamo bisogno di qualcuno che ci guardi. A seconda del tipo di sguardo sotto il quale vogliamo vivere, potremmo essere suddivisi in quattro categorie. La prima categoria desidera lo sguardo di un numero infinito di occhi anonimi [...] La seconda categoria è composta da quelli che per vivere hanno bisogno dello sguardo di molti occhi a loro conosciuti [...] C'è poi la terza categoria, la categoria di quelli che hanno bisogno di essere davanti agli occhi della persona amata [...] E c'è infine una quarta categoria, la più rara, quella di coloro che vivono sotto lo sguardo immaginario di persone assenti. Sono i sognatori.

Milan Kundera, "L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" dedicato al mio Amico Marco Casula

We all need someone to look at us. Depending on the type of gaze under which we want to live, we could be divided into four categories. The first category desires the gaze of an infinite number of anonymous eyes [...] The second category is made up of those who need the gaze of many eyes known to them to live [...] Then there is the third category , the category of those who need to be in front of the eyes of the loved one [...] And finally there is a fourth category, the rarest one, that of those who live under the imaginary gaze of absent people. They are dreamers.

Milan Kundera, "The unbearable lightness of being"

dedicated to my friend Marco Casula