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...Susteren. On the eve of the new millennium, she vows "to learn to comb my hair before my show rather than after." Medical and personal-grooming resolutions happen to be among my favorites. Here are two that I may or may not use this year, so feel free to borrow them if you'd like: "To actually mail in those occult fecal-blood tests that doctors always give you after checkups" and "to stop honking my rubber-bulb ear-wax-removal syringe during performances of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron." Personal resolutions may simply pertain to your...
...borrow a famous phrase from Karl Marx, "All that is solid melts into air"--was melting already, as of 1911, and forming large and inconvenient puddles on the floor, quite insusceptible to the morally muscular moppings of outraged critics. Here one directs the reader to the foldout chart elsewhere in these pages. Prepared with much disputatious--not to say rebellious--muttering by this magazine's critics, it lists the century's "best" work in every facet of the arts. Its most interesting aspect is the intensely clustered dates of the works representing the major expressive forms...
...informed editorial ranting, public obscenity and casual accusations of "genocide" and "hatred" are a greater danger to the University than a hundred "Coming Out" dinners. To borrow the words of The Crimson's editorial, such displays truly are "an embarrassment to both conservatives and liberals of good will...
...said the conservatives were "insensitive to explicitly borrow language from the gay rights movement" for the name of the dinner, as well as to schedule the event on World AIDS Day, a day commemorating victims of AIDS and dedicated to raising awareness about the illness...
...business guy, it's a day-to-day struggle to survive," says Larry Mocha. He is president and owner of Air Power Systems Co., a Tulsa, Okla., maker of air cylinders and other parts for trucks that his father founded in 1964. At times, Mocha recalls, he had to borrow on his personal credit card to meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking at two more potential acquisitions...