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...turn, gets 10% of the catalogue and all of the admission revenues from a hoped-for audience of 7,000 people a day, or 750,000 during the 3½-month New York run, at $4 a head. So far, the market in tickets has not been very brisk. Better one Egyptian boy-king, apparently, than any number of dead Popes...
Dental surgery slowed Kate at the start of this season, but the sophomore phenom staged a brisk comeback. By midseason, she managed to lead Harvard to fourth place in the NCAA championship meet, outpacing Alison to place eighth in the individual competition...
...nearby Fenton, throwing 4,300 people onto the street. There are some signs, however, that St. Louis may have more to cheer about next year than the World Series-winning Cardinals: Chrysler is adding a new shift of 1,700 to its Fenton auto assembly plant, anticipating a brisk demand for its new line of G24 sports cars...
...interest rates 1%, a gesture that should help encourage speculators to keep their money in Britain. As soon as she arrived from the airport, Thatcher met with a team of Treasury officials at her Downing Street office. Tired as she was, the Prime Minister was expected to apply another brisk dose of resolution to the pound's neurotic behavior. As her Treasury aides pointed out, inflation in Britain has fallen in the last year from 12% to about 6%. Government budget deficits have been brought under control, the trade balance is in healthy surplus, and unit labor costs...
Inevitably, Levine comes in for his share of criticism; on its basest level, he is booed with surprising frequency by a vocal minority at the Met when he takes his post-performance bows. Levine's tempos can be brisk to the point of hastiness, and in his enthusiasm for the music he often lets the sound of the orchestra overwhelm the singers, swamping them amid Wagnerian brass fortissimos or with the urgent sweep of passionate Verdian strings. Even the Met orchestra musicians, who are generally enthusiastic about their conductor, complain. Sometimes after a performance they leave informal, anonymous critiques...