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...four nail-biting days, furious Elena was manic and capricious. First the storm feinted at New Orleans, then howled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, then veered off abruptly. The hurricane lunged and snarled at about 500 miles of waterfront in four states like a vicious dog on a leash. Many in its projected path began to feel like Service Station Attendant Johnny Leland in Yankeetown, Fla., who said, "I can't stand this. I just wish the s.o.b. would come in, hit us and get it over with...
Such was the unexpectedly heart-warming climax to a thoroughly manic chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people...
...ensnare you with danceable rhythms and singalong-able choruses. Most of the Blue Turtle tunes sit on the turntable self-satisfied, making little effort to ensnare. These tunes have the same tempered, careful energy level of most of Synchronicity (the last Police I.P), but at least that album contained manic cuts like Synchronicity I and Mother to keep everything out of a too-even kilter. Surely the musical dexterity and spontaneity of Sting's new topnotch band will enliven concert performances, but on the album, lyrics and singing demand attention; these don't deliver any great riches...
...death-of-abstract-art talk heard so much at the start of the '80s, as foolish as the death-of-painting cant in the '70s. Much of the work of younger American artists remains abstract, whether "decorative" (Alan Shields, Valerie Jaudon or the exuberant Judy Pfaff, whose manic, space-consuming constructions are hybrids of painting and sculpture) or more ostensibly rigorous in its aims, like that of Gary Stephan, 42. His paintings are like massive and vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced by such artists as Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and Prampolini...
Other potential bidders may be scared away by the thought that if Murdoch could not make the paper profitable, no one can. In his quest to put the Post in the black, Murdoch transformed a liberal if tired tabloid into a manic, grab-'em-by-the-lapels paper that jolted readers with apocalyptic headlines. If newsprint could talk, the Post would be the loudest paper in the country. A rambunctious student upsets a teacher? Read all about it in last Wednesday's edition under MOTORMOUTH MENACE MADE ME QUIT. If the Post had not been so uncharacteristically silent about...