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...Henley's little hint that this clan is disaster-prone. Lenny MaGrath (Lizbeth Mackay), the eldest sister, is facing her 30th birthday with "a shrunken ovary" and no gentlemen callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley's predilection for bizarre Southern Gothic extravagance is the death of her horse Billy...
...when the little boy grows up (as the album title declares), we have to deal with new confidence. Grown-up Jeffreys mindlessly runs through R.O.C.K., his paean to his draft which sounded so heartfelt on last year's Escape Artist; the new version is like hearing 101 strings playing the Who's "My Generation." And "96 Tears" does not belong on another Garland Jeffreys album. He's been in the business for a decade, proclaims his allegiance to Frankie Lymon, so why doesn't he play something else to show...
...towering interest rates that threaten a new recession (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Moreover, the now apparent inadequacy of the first series of budget cuts addressed to that goal has forced the Administration into an agonizing internal debate: how to reconcile the budget-balancing pledge with Reagan's equally heartfelt promise to launch a gargantuan military buildup...
...level of government and to balance those with adequate resources." It was not acceptable, Busbee cautioned, for "our friends" in Washington to "pick out the most expensive, the most difficult to manage, the most politically controversial federal programs, and hand them over to the states and localities with a heartfelt sigh of relief...
...successful. It has a distinctively "American" sound derived from Charles Ives, opening with a questioning overture of bold, disjunct octaves. The composer then weakens his argument with | three short character pieces | that, while agreeable, do nothing to further the work's emotional progress. The finale, however, is a heartfelt Elegia that ends with a haunting repeated fragment in the piano, dissolving in resignation and despair...