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Such forbearance has begun to worry car dealers. With the average price of an American auto now at $19,200, up $1,000 from a year ago, higher rates could turn interested shoppers into mere tire kickers. To keep sales moving at the brisk pace of 15.5 million cars and trucks a year, the automakers financing units have absorbed part of the higher loan costs instead of passing them along to customers. While that has worked so far, companies fear that sales could drop off sharply if rates go much higher...
Today: Mixed clouds and sun, and a bit warmer. Highs 55 to 65. Tonight: Mostly cloudy and brisk. Lows...
Walcott, the Nobel-winning West Indian poet whose 8,000-line Omeros hijacked Homer to the Caribbean, here packs the major events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen...
...game began at 2:30 p.m. under the brisk October sunshine...
...recent book is enjoying brisk sales and generating no small amount of discussion in the book-selling community. Is it the newest from Stephen King, who can pen a bestseller in the time it takes most of us to write a response paper? Or maybe it's a romance novel, the cover showing a shirtless Fabio embracing a well-endowed woman on a windswept plain. Alas, no. The book I speak of offers nothing in the way of violence or lust--although it may provoke horror or love depending on who reads...