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Unlike the songs on Stratas' earlier album, The Unknown Kurt Weill, these are among the composer's most familiar. The soprano's increasingly raw voice is not entirely suitable to the works of the American period, like the wistful waltz Foolish Heart, from One Touch of Venus. But it is just right for the angry desperation of the Brecht-Berlin years; the harsh, bitter edge to the smoky Surabaya-Johnny proclaims there will be no happy end here...
...warm fuzzy bunny compared to the good but aggressive Blue Velvets of the season, it's worth seeing by way of contrast. Definitely a good flick to see with a date. Definitely a flick that'll make you feel okay about life after it's over. Definitely not a foolish choice...
...Lowell Lecture Hall was offered to the Harvard Foundation with money, I think we'd be foolish not to take it," says Gomes, adding that he might rejoin the Foundation if it acquired such a facility. Nevertheless, "the lack of readily available space does not seem to have inhibited the vitality of minority life," says Gomes, who chaired the committee that created the Foundation in January...
...message in Scapine is not terribly profound. Moliere draws a harsh comic picture of the bourgeoisie, obsessed with money and appearances, yet gullible and foolish. Octavio and Leander, dependent upon their parents' fortunes, are too cowardly to follow their hearts. Argante and Geronte, mean and suspicious, cling so tightly to their purses that their children are relegated to a subordinate position in their lives. Only Scapine lives a life of pleasure, controlling the rich through her clever schemes...
...experts generally agree that people are wise to lock in longterm profits by selling investments that have already increased greatly in value. But taxpayers might be foolish to dump an investment that is in the middle of a growth spurt. Future profits might be worth far more than the tax advantage gained by selling them now, notes Wallace Turner, a New York City broker for the investment firm of Smith Barney. Says he: "Our culture has put such value on tax breaks that even the savviest investors wonder whether they should dump their best-performing stocks." Wall Streeters hope that...