Word: lengthens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...articles lengthen-profiles that would be long in two parts now run for three-there is frustration in the writers' paradise. No one can be as savage a critic of the prolixity, or the lack of merit, of what does get published than a writer whose own work has been waiting months to appear. Shawn acknowledges that "we are tempted to hold for two, three or four years'' articles that have no topicality, "but we don't want to make writers unhappy." The backlog of unprinted articles "always seems a little longer every year." Some writers...
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...