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...embarrassments? The plot is meager, the characters wear thin too quickly, the gags are often laid out as if for a garage sale. Consenting Adults does not have the emotional depth or the satiric edge of the author's seriocomedies, The Blood of the Lamb and Reuben, Reuben. In Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With...
Witty, often trenchant, Hartley rarely lacked for friends and even patrons, though support was often meager. He was always in financial uncertainty, living in countless borrowed houses, or as somebody's guest. As late as 1934, when he was 57, he had to destroy more than 100 paintings and drawings to save money on storage space...
...Labor Secretary Ray Marshall predicted that unemployment could reach 8.5% early in 1981, much higher than the 7.2% peak that the Administration had originally forecast. Housing continued to be one of the economy's weakest sectors, as new home starts plunged 11% to an annual rate of a meager 920,000 units, the lowest since February 1975. Once again in May, wages and salaries failed to keep pace with inflation...
...athletes, the Olympics were scheduled, and now that the amateurs's participation has been cancelled, their efforts have been blighted. Not that the pursuit of athletics is not an end in itself; but the pursuit of amateur athletics in the face of adversity carries high costs and offers meager returns. This summer we will focus on the pennant races and the tennis and golf tournaments while the amateurs fade into oblivion. They face a disgraceful fate, those who will not complete in Moscow: they are not news...
...some clear signs of scrimping. Anything that smacks of more value is likely to catch buyers' eyes. Discount stores are even racking up sizable gains as department store profits decline. K Mart's business in the first quarter was up 14% while Sears' grew a meager 1.5%. Sales of so-called no-brand generic products, which can be substituted for their nationally advertised siblings but are packed in plain black-and-white packages, are also on the increase. The plain-marked product often sells for 30% to 50% less than the national brand, and some...