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...problem, said Heller, is that "we have gotten trapped in a maze of economic lags." Falling world oil prices, for example, reached a new low of $8 on spot markets last week. Cheap oil is putting more money into the pockets of consumers and most businesses, and it will ultimately stimulate sales and investment. But in the short run, the oil-price drop has wreaked havoc among U.S. energy producers, which have cut back on exploration and production, thereby dragging down U.S. output and employment...
...such hesitation prevented the immediate success of one of the liveliest and best tapas restaurants, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba! in Chicago, which opened last December. The look at Ba-Ba-Reeba! is lively and typical. The room is a jam- packed maze of tables, counters and bars, with all the tapas symbols in place: hanging hams and sausages, ropes of garlic and peppers, and sides of dried salt codfish. Noise, music, tiles and fake Spanish paintings (a not- quite- Picasso Guernica here, a playful pseudo-Miro there) attract yuppies of all ages, who begin to line...
Such fanciful creatures are diversions as a lonely teenager (Jennifer Connelly) wanders the labyrinth in search of the castle where a malefic king (David Bowie) has detained her year-old brother. The maze, of course, is adolescence, and its dark lord is Bowie, the charismatic Kabuki sorcerer who offers his ravishing young antagonist the gilded perks of adult servitude ("Just let me rule you, and you can have everything you want"). With their technical astonishments, Director Henson and Executive Producer Lucas have been faithful to the pioneering Disney spirit. In suggesting the thrilling dilemmas that await a wise child, they...
Capobianco is not talking about ABC, CBS and NBC. The networks changing his life--and the lives of millions of Americans--are the ones connecting the nation's 30 million computers in a vast maze of interlocking grids. America's infatuation with the electronic computer, a machine born and nurtured on these shores, is blossoming into a network love affair. Says Louise Herndon Wells, an analyst with the California research firm Dataquest: "We have more desktops wired together with information devices than any other country in the world...
...three countries might have taken a lesson from the Japanese, who have thought small rather than big. Much of their display consists of a miniature reproduction of the Japanese transportation system: trains scurrying along a maze of tracks, trucks and cars hurrying along the roads (but stopping obediently for red lights), boats going into harbors, and, up above, airplanes circling on eternal flight paths. Fairgoers whose eyes seemed to glaze at the space gadgetry in the other pavilions appeared mesmerized by this souped-up train...