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...surprise, but it was disturbing. On Friday the Labor Department said the unemployment rate last month climbed from 9.8% to 10.1%, meaning that 11.3 million Americans are unable to find work. For the first time since 1940, the percentage of U.S. unemployed reached double digits. Black unemployment crept above 20%, and for blue-collar workers the rate jumped from 14.2% to 15.6%. Among construction workers, unemployment rose to 22.6%. Friday was even given a nickname in advance: "Double-D-Day." Said Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist: "This has been the most anticipated number in American politics...
Naturally, the Syrians were outraged, not only by the insults but also by their own conviction that Soviet equipment is just not as good as American, and thus they are bound to lose in any future encounters with Israel. The doubt about Moscow's military gear has crept into the dialogues of other customers, and it is having a quiet impact around the world...
...argued that they were churning out editions of American classics unreadable by anyone but specialists. He had a point, but the work went on and eventually produced sound, if unspectacular, results. They are available to Libary of America editions. Many texts have been purged of errors that crept into them over years of reprintings. Some have grown. One research team found and restored 36,000 words excised from the manuscript of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; a forthcoming edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage adds 5,000 words that were cut before publication. When...
...dropped from 230 to 195, dieting," he said, "but just didn't feel comfortable. I didn't have that gut in my way. So I've slowly crept back up." The occasional cruel remarks that tortured Nicklaus, Stadler shrugs off. When he was described as "a carnivorous moose stalking his dinner," his reaction was to say, "Moose aren't carnivorous." In his snug green Masters jacket, Stadler was asked about the changes a major championship would bring in his life. He had been the eighth leading money winner in both...
...Chiricos are few, and most of them are on the MOMA'S walls. On the other hand, copies and "later" versions-a euphemism for self-forgeries-are everywhere. (One of them, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, dubiously identified as a 1917 Metaphysical Interior, has crept into the show and should creep out.) Italian art dealers used to say the maestro's bed was six feet off the ground, to hold all the "early work" he kept "discovering" beneath it. In a spirit of pardonable malice, Rubin reprints in the catalogue 18 versions...