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...great sax man's short, messy, indispensable life as one of the founding innovators of modern jazz, knows better. It surrenders to the right things, his compositions and performances, reconstructed with compelling authenticity by music supervisor Lennie Niehaus. And it repels the wrong things, the damp pity and even damper piety that usually attend movie explorations of "genius." This film hates easy explanations almost as much as it loves the hard complexity of Bird's song...
That put only a temporary damper on the party being thrown by the athletic % underclass. Most were even making plans for 1992 and beyond. "I've got at least two more Olympics in me," declares Gonzalez. Fellow Luger Tucker is also future-gazing. "Maybe," he says, "it's time to start driving a bobsled." En garde, Albert...
...focused such an intense spotlight on consumer behavior as an indicator of the economy's future prospects. Consumer spending, which constitutes two-thirds of the $4.5 trillion U.S. economy, has been the engine of American growth in recent years. Since a long overdue return to thriftiness would put a damper on the economy, a too rapid conversion could be dangerous. "If everybody got religion and cut their spending 10%, we'd have a recession. Gradual change is what we need," says Cynthia Latta, senior financial economist for Data Resources, a forecasting firm...
...Alaska-Fairbanks (now 8-1-1) beat Alaska-Anchorage twice last week. "I guess that put a damper [on the ranking]," said Karen Morris, sports information director of Alaska-Anchorage...
...shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several deals fell through because the bids made for the target companies suddenly looked unrealistically high after the general decline in stock prices...