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...time prefigures Chekhov's later plays, notably The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. The joys this collaboration offers, however, are as much visceral as literary. In chronicling the tomfoolery of a village intellectual, half charmer, half malcontent, Wild Honey provides nonstop bawdy laughter followed by a silencing leap into the abyss...
...postmodern impulse of the 1970s was fundamentally a movement away from , the cerebral and toward the sensual. Today, although interest in the frillier postmodern forms is waning, many architects and designers are taking a further leap in the same direction. They are concerned less with issues of style and more with exploring the character and connotations of building materials -- the nuances of woods and stone and plaster and metals and plastics and finishes. The best designs of 1986 in almost every instance exemplify the new materialism...
Wright's swift leap into a controversial issue was nothing if not characteristic. Capitol Hill observers learned long ago that the 16-term Congressman and former House majority leader never backs away from a fight. Nor did the new Speaker, a former Golden Gloves boxer and a decorated World War II bomber pilot, retreat under fire on the tax issue. "I have not called for a tax increase," he said. "I have suggested postponing any further tax decreases for the very wealthiest taxpayers." Says Christopher Matthews, a former aide to Wright's predecessor Tip O'Neill: "Wright is going...
Reagan has been a wild man, charging forward come hell or high deficits. He has used those deficit budgets to cut social services, as David Stockman revealed, and has promoted the destabilizing judicial activism of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. It did not require a great leap of cynicism to go from these reprehensible schemes to the White House basement plottings of Lt. Col. Oliver North...
...typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a company, limiting their blocks to less than 5% to avoid the SEC's required disclosure rule. Then one member of the ring can leak the rumor of an impending takeover. When legitimate arbitragers leap into the fray, the group can unload at an inflated stock price and make off with enormous profits. Says Bergstein: "Both the raider and the arbitrager have an incentive to tell the other side what they are doing...