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...winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...
Clinton paid dearly for a victory he probably could have had on the cheap; he was a masterly campaigner running against a hopeless one, in a moment of peace and prosperity. Yet the tactics of his fund-raising machine looked so greedy--and may prove to be illegal--that he squandered the chance at a margin he could have read as a mandate...
...whatever the thread connecting Wideman's selections may be, it is certain that there are a number of great works included. The book is a quick read, an item to leave on the coffee table or next to the toilet, to be read during those long nights spent in hopeless procrastination fits. Buy the book and flip through it when you need a break. You will certainly not be disappointed...
When I first glanced at the characters pictured in that ad, I assumed that the product being advertised was some new type of methadone clinic. I expected the copy line to be something like "There is no such thing as an absolutely hopeless human being," or "We deal with worst-case scenarios." What Klein was trying to sell, it turned out, was a perfume called cK be, described as "the new fragrance for people...
What deLima did have, in abundance, was the willingness to make a show of herself, without which the whole evening would have been hopeless. She came down into the audience and pretended to berate an audience member (A plant? He bore it with too much grace not to be,) in Weill's wonderful song "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." That, incidentally, was the best performance of the night, allowing deLima to combine histrionics with an aggressive, loudish tone; in other words, to be operatic (it's no coincidence, I think, that Weill was also the only "serious" composer...