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...success is based on the kind of personal magnetism that has been making baritones and matinee idols rich and famous for generations, a particular masculine presence. Lean and hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female heart?at any age. Half explaining, half apologizing for her delight in Fire and Rain, a University of Michigan coed who is also a trained musician admits: "I don't know...
Qabus, who occasionally answers the telephone himself at the palace (Muscat 220), is a curious blend of modernity and tradition. A bachelor, he disapproves of drinking and of modern dancing in public. He prefers robes and turbans to Western dress. Since becoming Sultan he has worn his uniform as commander of the 6,000-man Omani army only once -for a parade in December marking his 30th birthday...
...explosive, fragmented style, Author Speicher documents his man's decline and fall with a furious blend of sardonic humor, and steamy, seamy scene setting in the slums. Speicher's assaults on the folly of both the self-enchanted and the disenchanted are a literary achievement, the transformation of social outrage into...
...contracting czar over the grafting of parking facilities onto Boston's tiny, jewel-like Public Gardens is neither as funny nor as deadly as it should be. Still, Edward Sheehan is expert at mapping the social-climbing customs of the local clans. Irish civic life-with its blend of the sacred and profane, its flouting of the separation between church and state -is the author's real subject. The Emmett Shannons of the world still have their Sister Philomenas teaching arithmetic: "Emmett, how much is four prophecies plus eight prophecies divided by three prophecies?" The religious oddments that...
...great debate will probably lead policymakers to use an eclectic blend of Keynesian fiscal principles and Friedman monetary principles. Stanford's George L. Bach, one of the most eminent neutral economists, argues that neither fiscal nor monetary policy alone "is powerful enough to regulate the economy effectively. If the Government is sensible, it will always use both." As a decade of prosperity, inflation and recession has demonstrated, changes in taxes and Government spending are difficult to arrange but quick to act on the economy. By contrast, money policies can be changed overnight, but their effect is long delayed...