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...chief reason for expecting another downturn so soon is that interest rates are flying around in a still dizzier cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Challenge | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...offers playgoers the flippest of flip sides. In Dogg's Hamlet, the first of two interrelated playlets, Stoppard telescopes tag lines and famous scenes to distill the doings of the broody Dane into a dizzying quarter-hour of comic relief. Then he caps it off with an even dizzier reprise, a 204-word two-minute version. In the larger version, Hamlet gets as far as "To be, or not to be . . ." when Ophelia pipes up "My lord," only to be scaldingly dismissed with "Get thee to a nunnery!" In the dietetic No-Cal version, Ophelia enters, "falls to ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Katt's Ploy | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...game. Once Bud shot a moose, but Connie never achieved his ambition for her. Friendly natives gave them an occasional bite of "Eskimo ice cream" (blueberries, snow, and seal oil). Sometimes they had so little to eat that they lost all desire for food and meandered down the river "dizzier than sick cats," sipping hot tea in the driving rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yukon Honeymoon | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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