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When the cost of money shot up early this year, consumer spending tailed off, the economy and the stock market started to slump, and unemployment lines began to lengthen almost everywhere. Yet now that the recession has cooled the demand for money, the high cost of borrowing has steadily dropped. This is making it somewhat easier for people to buy a house or a car, or perhaps just go out to dinner on a credit card...
Foremost among these is Epstein's appropriation of Henry Purcell's score for The Fairy Queen, with chorus, soloists and instruments of the Banchetto Musicale, as a means both to lengthen and to enrich Shakespeare's play. The backhanded slap at Mendelssohn's romantic score, with its pianissimo fairies and ebullient wedding march, makes clear even before the lights go up the director's vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream: counterpoint over harmony. If the music doesn't bring that message home, Epstein has added a brief masque to accompany the overture: before a Paolo Uccello-like tapestry...
...lanolin oil are emulsifiers that enable the other ingredients to mix and form a smooth lotion. Three of the ingredients are pigments, which give color to the skin when the cream goes on. They are titanium dioxide, iron oxides and talc. There are also three preservatives to lengthen the shelf life of the cream: methylparaben, imidazolidinyl urea and propylparaben. In fact, the most expensive ingredient is propylparaben, which sells for about $3.30 per lb. But a safe assumption is that scarcely 20 worth ever finds its way into...
Other forms of journalism have proved ineffectual substitutes for newspapers. Local television stations lengthen their news broadcasts without improving them. Critics from the papers, reading their reviews on the air, soon found themselves simplifying their judgments-more fervently denouncing or plugging a book-having discovered television's inpatience with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula...
Hang time -- it's the key to the punting game, and both Restic and MacMurray know there's too little of it right now. "We lack a punting coach, per se," MacMurray says, explaining he works out alone, trying to improve his drop, heighten his extension and lengthen his hang time. But such an improvement takes time and concentration; and for MacMurray, that means solitude...