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...Super-Ball, which can bounce for a full minute before stopping. At the other extreme, prospects are healthy for businesses that sell goods and services primarily to people over 65. The lengthening life span and the increase in social-security payments-plus the passage of medicare -will heighten demand for hospital supplies, medical equipment, nursing homes and retirement villages...
...right to be alienated. But the Advocate's monotonous avant garde anomie turns away fellow-travelers as well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first...
...production never drags. It does all that is humanly possible to curb Miller's obstinate philosophizing and heighten the playable moments in what seems on paper to be a pretentious bore. It is not so on the stage because the author, in spite of himself, has created real people...
...belt" along the West German border fronting East Germany. The buried mines would presumably annihilate an invader without forcing him into a nuclear counterstrike be cause they would not explode on his own but only on West German territory. It was hard to see how this would serve to heighten West Germany's sense of security, since it assumed that the invader would arrive only on land. But both the U.S. and France professed interest, and in fact similar devices are said to be under installation around, of all places, the Lorelei rocks on the Rhine, presumably to flood...
...need to confront the individual. "No orange blobs," says she. "I'll paint a face where there is one." On a recent swing around the Mediterranean, she discovered at first hand the proto-baroque painters, Ribera and Caravaggio, and has borrowed their theatrical use of localized light to heighten her figures' impression of stirring the air around them...