Word: bartons
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Playwright August Wilson -- who wrote The Piano Lesson and Fences -- begins his new play with a scene in which a group of friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was about to take off when he died. The rest of the play, about Barton's rocky life, is "enormously promising and filled with colorful sketches of dialogue and very appealing characters" says TIME critic Bill Tynan. As the end of the play approaches, however, both the "plotting and the ideas get muddy, so it isn't as moving as it should...
...downers includes a muni bond fund that I bought in anticipation of low inflation and lower interest rates, a gold fund I bought in anticipation of high inflation and higher interest rates, two China funds mentioned in an earlier column, a Turkey fund I bought because international expert Barton Biggs was quoted in the press as liking Turkey (maybe he meant to visit), and a handful of issues recently favored by Fidelity's Peter Lynch...
...secondary characters, primarily the parents of both girls, are flat eccentrics, reminiscent of Joel and Ethan Coen creations in "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink." The pansy college professor, the dissatisfied society wife, and others alternately plague their difficult daughters and provide a fairy-tale-gone-wrong background--Pauline's parents, it turns out, were never married, and Juliet's parents are getting a divorce. Pauline's mother, designated victim, is less easy to write off, and it is precisely her authenticity which makes the eventual crime so terrible...
Professor of Business Administration Dorothy A. Leonard-Barton, who contributed $400 to Romney's campaign, said the Republican's strong support at the Business School may come from "personal contacts" he has made with professors...
...Caterpillar took a more conventional, and controversial, lean-and-mean approach. In the early 1980s, says Glen Barton, group president for construction and mining machinery, Caterpillar's "costs were out of line with what overseas markets were willing to pay for our products"; the company lost $1.5 billion cutting prices below cost to meet the competition of Japan's Komatsu and other rivals. But Caterpillar has slashed its work force 31% in the past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits...