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Sting seems to have lost control of his subtlety mechanism. What made a Police gem like Driven to Tears so powerful was its personal and un-sanctimonious reaction to poverty and suffering, set in a brisk and tuneful way. Sting's cleverness, so astute in the past, is buried by well-intentioned solemnity. He shouldn't have to explain his songs in exclusive interviews...
Union City, N.J., is 1,300 miles from Cuba. But refugees from Fidel Castro's island so dominate the community that a service organization posts the days when the "Cuban Lions" meet. A children's shop does a brisk business in mosquiteros, lace mosquito nets for cribs that are a necessity in Cuba but only a nostalgic and expensive decoration in Union City...
Beattie keeps the pace of her story brisk and the atmosphere antic but genial. People who assume that TV and gossip columns can bestow meaning on their lives might come in for criticism in some quarters. Not here. Reading Love Always is as easy and relaxing as watching a field of fireflies at dusk...
...both contribute the annual individual maximum of $2,000 for 30 years. Says Susan Loughridge, a Continental senior vice president: "It's our theory that women entered the work force later and haven't planned for their retirement. This is a way to catch up." The response was brisk: on the first day the new accounts were | available, 63 women deposited $114,501. During a typical day before the promotion, only three or four women opened IRAs...
...demand for home computers has been brisk but below expectations. Professionals use the machines to catch up with work at home, and many families enjoy playing computer games. But the range of other uses for computers in the home is still limited. Most consumers seem to think that a pencil remains the tool of choice for balancing the checkbook and updating the grocery list. Home-computer sales, which surged from 390,000 machines in 1981 to 4.8 million in 1983, declined by 6%, to 4.5 million, last year. Says John Pope of IBM's personal-computer unit: "Our expectations were...