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...become over the years so closely calculating that he has lost all trace of spontaneity and humanity. His every gesture is self-conscious and self-congratulatory. As a director, he has become a great deal more elaborate but somewhat less inspired. Traffic's set pieces, like a large pile-up of cars in an improbable accident, all seem too cherished and worked over; they have a laboratory air about them...
...their parallel turns before heading for Aspen on semester break. Meanwhile, real estate developers in North Carolina are using ski hills as come-ons to sell lots for second homes. And near Milwaukee, executives of Continental Can Co. have proposed that the city build a ski area on a pile of pulverized garbage...
...Christmas shopping season reached its halfway point last week, Americans were already assured of waking up to an eye-popping pile of packages under their trees. Retailers are reporting sizzling gains in sales that by the end of next week will add up to the biggest Christmas ever. In line with the recent consumer spending spree (TIME, Oct. 23), department-store sales for 1972 are running 9% ahead of those for the previous year, with some large merchants ringing up gains of 13%. Discounting for the 3.4% rise in price tags caused by inflation over the past year, that would...
...again," says Chief Bromden, as he steps through the hospital window, escaping to the outside world, and leaving the dead pile of his self-sacrificing mentor behind. So ends the play. The final sentence of Kesey's novel runs. "I been away a long time"--away from a larger and more concrete world, out of touch with reality, after having surrendered to a society that is cruel, but not ultimately invincible. He may be "big again" in the play, but it was McMurphy who taught him to walk tall, and McMurphy is dead. Regaining contact with reality, leaving behind...
...saying very little. The fact that Delaware has no commercial TV stations of its own was no handicap for the old-line Democrat. He is, as his son-in-law and campaign manager Skip Webb conceded to reporters, "not too articulate." Tribbitt simply waited patiently for his majority to pile...