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...simplicity of the setting focuses the attention instead on the main attraction of Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's script. With a natural flow, the dialogue manages of balance emotional intensity with a wry touch of humor. Hidden behind the polished veneer of perfunctory thank-you notes, the characters' lines express much more than their surface meaning...
...thing. A decent goal of female clothing design is to enhance a woman, but styles in the past few seasons have often made a grotesque distortion of the natural silhouette. Interruption in the form of extravagant collars, peplums and other superfluous add-ons to skirts has replaced any graceful flow. Having peaked several years ago, multiple layering is back, even bulkier and more intrusive than in its last incarnation. All the elements that make a great dress -- materials, tailoring, imagination -- seem to have been degraded...
...even the deficit can be a boon if you're in the filly-raising class. The interest payments, which take up about 15% of the federal budget, go to the owners of Treasury bonds, meaning mainly the monied, and thus serve as one more conduit for the upward flow of wealth...
After reading 700 pages of rules governing the cable-television business, Southwestern Bell said no thanks to a planned $4.9 billion merger with Cox, the country's sixth largest cable system. "It's unlikely the cable industry can generate the cash flow we expected," concluded a senior vice president of Southwestern, based in San Antonio, Texas. This deal is the second to fall apart following the FCC announcement of another round of 7% cuts in cable rates. Bell Atlantic mentioned the rate cutbacks when it scuttled its planned $20 billion takeover of TCI last February...
...body that cleans up the affairs of failed S&Ls, in part to look for evidence of fraud that would enable the RTC to file civil claims to recover some of the $47 million that Madison's failure cost taxpayers. That probe would almost inevitably delve into the alleged flow of money between Madison and Whitewater Development Co., in which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House...