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...superficiality as he practices all over the stage during his solo "Am'I Alone and unobserved? And Sullivan's Grosvenor mocks all handsome heroes with his marcissism powered by a stage presence that would sweep even the audience off its feet. Sullivan and Thrope prove excellent foils in brisk repartee during their duet. "When I Go Out of Doors," as Bunthorne tries to convince Grosvenor to become more homely. All of the songs are enjoyable, but none sticks in our minds: the show consequently becomes a pleasant blur a perfect G&S aperitif...
...liquid slurry as a shrunken form, like a dried leaf. Shields has a Japanese attitude toward paper: he likes it to speak for itself, and his approach is a matter of subtle interventions rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries of contrasting thread-looks both improvised and exact, like a well-blown line in jazz. The paper shapes themselves start as regular forms: spoked wheels, geometric grids, or a sheet perforated with spaced holes. Most of them are spares, leftovers from earlier "multiple" projects. But because there...
Supercrooks do brisk business...
...list of 60 adjectives applied to the emerging recovery. The tone of the list has been changing dramatically. Only six months ago, Heller says, economists were calling the recovery "weak, wobbly, puny, pokey, measly, muted and miserable." Now, however, the rebound has suddenly become "rapid, robust, snappy, surging, brisk, bullish and a barn burner...
While graphology has long been used by European firms to evaluate potential employees, it has only recently caught on in the U.S. Handwriting Analyst Sheila Kurtz, who started her own New York-based consulting firm in 1973, now advises an estimated 200 companies. Business has been particularly brisk since the Hitler-diary hoax started a new interest in handwriting analysis. But some maintain that graphology is sometimes no more reliable than the Führer's scribblings. Says Theodore Hurst, a partner in the Chicago consulting firm of Worthington, Hurst & Associates: "It's a $10 idea made into...