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Last year, while 25 million people acquired leased phones, only 5 million purchased them. Now the confluence of Government-ordered deregulation and the breakup of AT&Tis changing all that...
...freeing of form continued, until Lowell had freed his writing even from the conventions of approach which prohibited the use of personal detail as subject matter. The Dolphin (1973) drew heavily from his breakup with Hardwick and aroused critical furor. Lifelong friends of Lowell's--Elizabeth Bishop included--advised him not to publish the manuscript. He went ahead anyway and wound up pioneering a new poetry; it was confessional, elevated to art and updated by the new approaches to the 20th century...
...mystery since she disappeared from Logan Airport last November, Bonnie's was all too clear. Her ex-boyfriend, himself a recent Yale graduate, killed her (with an axe) in mad jealousy at a new lover she had met on a tour with the Yale Glee Club, shortly after their breakup. He later told the court he couldn't stand to let her date another...
Last week's momentous Bundestag vote grew out of weeks of virtual paralysis and political infighting between the country's major parties following the Sept. 17 breakup of Helmut Schmidt's ruling center-left coalition. It marked the first time in West Germany's postwar history that a change in leadership was brought about by the use of the "constructive" procedure.* The unorthodox method of the changing of the guard in Bonn gave an element of instability and uncertainty to the fledgling Kohl government, which has tentatively promised national elections for next March 6. Kohl...
Since the coalition's breakup, Schmidt's party has received a "sympathy boost." The latest Allensbach poll showed that the Social Democrats have rebounded from a low ebb of 31.4% last July to 36.8%. During the Hesse campaign, the S.P.D. plastered Free Democratic posters with red stickers denouncing their "Betrayal in Bonn." In recent speeches, Schmidt has heaped scorn on the Free Democrats, calling Genscher a Weinpanscher (someone who sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad...