Word: faucet
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...poor little rich girl." Sandra reached her conclusion after a summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed." Gushed Sandra: "It was great...
Pressure at the Faucet...
...human reactions far too little and audience responses far too much: it goes for its laughs to what has many times been laughed at. and in the very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves his son; Uncle may rant and roar, but he eventually writes out a check. There are amusing enough...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
...bust is too dangerous, since the FRB is powerless to reverse full-scale depression. It takes more than easy credit to persuade a businessman to turn out goods for which there is no market. Argues Martin: "The Federal Reserve cannot turn the economy off and on like a faucet. But we can minimize fluctuations, and we have the responsibility to do that-to lean against the prevailing wind in order to achieve economic balance." To a great extent, the Federal Reserve's effectiveness in maintaining the balance of the U.S. economy today is a tactical victory for its ninth...