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Some signs of a leveling off in the rocketing rise in demand are now beginning to appear, but many experts expect the buying pace to remain brisk and salutary in the months ahead. A temporary easing of the sales upturn sometime soon would scarcely be unexpected. Says Paul J. Markowski, chief economist of Argus Research Corp.: "Consumers are merely pausing to reassess the situation. We had a big rush of spending in March, so a slowdown is not surprising...
...next attraction is a brisk trip to Park Street followed by a roller coaster ride on the green line trolley to Kenmore...
Psychologically, this makes good sense. That the doctor feels the same anguish as her patients, that she knows it's incurable, and that she feels guilty about uncovering the running sores of the soul, then dismissing then in a brisk and cheerful way--all of these are convincing reasons why a seeming model of sanity and success should suddenly break. But Bergman has demonstrated more effective ways of revealing this. The viewer feels so insulted and manipulated by the overexplicit technique of this dream-sequence that he is almost too preoccupied to concentrate on the unfolding story of Jenny...
Bill Emerson '77 traipsed through the cavernous Widener main stairwell yesterday with the air of someone on a mission. At a brisk half-trot, arms swinging, notebook in hand, he charged right down the middle of the rows upon rows of the public catalogue. Just before he would have crashed into the circulation desk, he wheeled to the left, grabbed a card tray under L, and riffled through it feverishly...
Director Chase deKay Wilson has preserved the sense of entertaining for the moment in her production of Present Laughter. The mood of the play is kept light and dialogue tumbles along at a brisk pace. As a result the play is never tedious despite its length (three full acts...