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Quickly dying are the days when cocktail-party chatter revolved around the rapidly appreciating value of a suburban house on a half-acre lot. Already dead is the tennis-court talk about coin collections and Krugerrands. Millions of Americans are now taking a crash course in a new savings strategy: how to make money during a period when the rate of inflation is declining, a phenomenon known as disinflation...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
Nguyen Cheu attended the panel discussion in which Vuetbanese specialist Long V. Ngo '68 defended the policies of the current Victnamese government. Testimony showed Chau stepped from behinid a tree and threw a Molotov cocktail at Ngo as he was being escorted to his cur by two Harvard policemen...
Conversion of the QE2, a floating luxury hotel with seven cocktail bars, four swimming pools and a casino, was a some what more complicated task. Most of the luxurious furniture and fittings from the public rooms were removed. Cunard decided to store ashore the bone china, the crystal glassware, the potted plants, the 17,000 bottles of champagne and the half-ton of caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were...
...also said that after arresting Neghio Ngo, officer Simas found a second Molotov cocktail--a bottle filled with gasoline and stuffed with a cloth wick--near the tree that Ngo hid behind...