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Plath's song is a dirge, difficult and painful to listen to, but painfully beautiful as well. In those last feverish months of her life, it's extraordinarily fortunate that someone managed to entrap the white hot sparks that Plath was sending off with such dangerously lavish intensity. Now those sparks have at last been released, and Sylvia Plath can "come across" to her audience as she really intended...
Britain's economic distress has been aggravated by lavish increases in public spending, which has risen from 44.2% of the G.N.P. in 1963 to an estimated 58.4% this year. Since tax revenues have not kept pace with this upsurge and Britain's balance of payments ledger has been almost constantly in the red, much of the difference between income and outgo has been made up indirectly by borrowing from abroad...
...Somebody. As a young minnow among real estate sharks, Ringer, now 37, was repeatedly cheated out of most of his broker's fee in "routine commissiondectomies." Then he discovered what he calls intimidation−really traditional oneupmanship. He started sending lavish 10-in. by 10-in. brochures as calling cards−each costing about $5 and featuring a glossy photo of the earth as seen from an Apollo spaceship. The legend: earth is "an investment to the wise." Explains Ringer: "The brochure was intimidating. I was not just another member of the pack. I was obviously 'somebody...
...just another Texas-style party. At a lavish ranch outside Austin last spring, some 300 ranchers, bankers, oilmen and politicians drank, ate barbecue, smoked pot and paired off for lovemaking. The only unusual aspect of the weekend-long party was that the guests were homosexuals. In an East Coast version of the Texas party, the cruise ship Renaissance sailed out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the Caribbean last December carrying some 300 homosexuals, including doctors, lawyers, architects and businessmen...
...time of austerity, the possibility of such lavish financing is remote. As M.I.T.'s Press puts it: "How does one sell preventive medicine for a future affliction to Government agencies beleaguered with current illness?" Ironically, the one event that would release money for the study of earthquake prediction and control is the very disaster that scientists are trying to avert: a major quake striking a highly populated area without any warning. Tens of thousands of people living in the flood plain of the Van Norman Dam had a close call four years ago in the San Fernando Valley quake...