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Democrats) and lag far behind Sato's party in current voter-preference polls...
Slow Trio. Some strange things are happening in the nation's most influential industry. G.M. has actually increased its share of the industry's sales, from 50.1% a year ago to 51.3% last month, but its volume is down because of a 10% lag in its Chevrolet Division, which accounts for half its output...
...soloists were all successful in this respect, making the most florid passages sound simple. Penny Colwell and Marian Ruhl sang their soprano duets like a single voice, and bass Walter Moore's competence and ease were overwhelming. In some of the tenor and bass duets, there was a lag of a few measures before the voices attained complete raport...
...makes good use of vertical poses (pyramids, piggy-backs, tableaux) at the expense of marching scenes and horas. But there are other problems. Kimball and Kimbrough, while excellent, are all too evidently acting toward their roles from their personalities (which shouldn't exist); the result is a lag in the first act that is enhanced by the lengthy argument between Sade and Marat. This is fairly tedious, since the play doesn't want to give ideas, but only imitations of ideas, swathed in anger and spectacle. The debate is something a callous director could cut down, a careless director here...
...will not produce the invention profitably without a patent is absurd, it is the equivalent of saying that Grand Union will never build another store because A. & P. will build one across the street. It is likely that a patent in the public domain will speed up the time lag between invention and widespread use, by rewarding the firm that produces the product first...