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...night, Mei Yang initiates his wife into the pleasures of sex. Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung in order to pursue a life of ordered womanizing. A pitiful Don Juan with a beleaguered Leporello, Mei Yang discovers that he is, comment dit-on, unequipped for the task. In a riotously slapstick scene, he submits to an operation in which a horse's member replaces his inadequate...
Time Takes Time occupied a notable team of four top producers (Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Peter Asher and Phil Ramone), 14 songwriters (including Ringo) and such graybeard kibitzers as Brian Wilson (who provides a Morse-code background % vocal of dit dit dit-dits on the Diane Warren tune In a Heart Beat). Somehow it all coheres, perhaps because this musical militia wanted to honor the group that shaped their pop tastes, and to do it with the one Beatle who could take direction from them as he did from Lennon and McCartney...
PARTIAL EXHILARATION, partial disappointment: one reader's response to this latest collection of essays by Roland Barthes. Intellectual morsels, released posthumously for our literary delectation--they can only be read in the light of all that has gone before, all that has been said and done, Barthes' own deja-dit, deja-vecu...
...referendum grew out of a scandal seven years ago involving foreign deposits. An officer at a Crédit Suisse branch in Chiasso, near the Italian border, was convicted of illegally diverting more than $800 million in customer funds into speculative investments. Most of the money had come from Italians seeking a haven from inflation and high tax rates...
Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president of Crédit Suisse, feared that persistently high interest rates could even abort the incipient European recovery. Warned Mast, who attributed the high rates, at least in part, to lingering worries about a resurgence of inflation in the U.S. and to the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy: "The prospects as seen from Switzerland are very chilling indeed. The three major short-term economic problems of our time have not been resolved." The first, in Mast's view, is unemployment, which "could rise to socially...