Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, instead of concluding the mess, Neame merely returns to the writers' tired mix of bland humor and semi-meaningful moralizing. Loomis and Snow, now buddies, enter the court, grinning. She whispers, "You and I make each other possible." Matthau seems too bored to respond...
...least the last eight years, and when his statistics are flung down on the table there is little to quarrel with. America--and even more the world--is running short of traditional fuels, he says. The long-term development of inexhaustible resources is assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal and nuclear electricity generation--are imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case...
...survive," he intones, "only if we do. It's about time we confronted the future with confidence by adopting solutions that represent neither the past nor blind dogma." Which would be fine if Tsongas had some new solutions; all he can suggest is the blending of the two yearnings. Mix yellow and blue and you get green. It may not be as pleasant to you as yellow or blue, but you can live with green...
...TROUBLE IS, though, that when you mix black with most anything you still get black. In his sorriest chapter, Tsongas tries to defend the notion that free enterprise in most cases will function humanely, and that tapping its power is the key to recovery from malaise. His example is Lowell, which has been revitalized by the influx of electronic firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town...
...Times (circ. 661, 531) is known for investigative reporting: last week it broke the Cardinal Cody story. Two recent entries indicate there may be life in the old format yet. In Philadelphia, the Journal (circ. 109,622), founded in 1977, is gaining a foothold with a sprightly mix of sports and gossip. Near by, the 106-year-old Delaware County Times converted itself last June 15 from a 25? afternoon broadsheet (circ. 39,000) to a 10? morning tabloid. In just ten weeks, circulation has risen to 49,000 and advertising linage has increased an estimated 10? over last year...