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...hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds a pleasant grace note to an edgy, insinuating comedy...
Schumann's three Fastasiestucke, Op. 73, were composed for clarinet, but the composer authorized performance by violin or cello. Moye imbues the work with proper impetuosity. Moye has also resurrected a pleasant three-movement Sonata in G Major by the little-known Jean-Baptiste Breval (1756-1825), who published many such pieces in the 1780s...
When he took to national politics there still was something unreal about him. He was a nice guy in an airplane, with a pretty wife, bumping around the country, dismayingly pleasant, shuffling his file cards and giving audiences his rouser on family and freedom. A lot of people thought that one morning they would wake up and he would be gone, back with his old footage on one of those sunny hills where aging actors go to wrinkle, with only their memories watching...
...from the links. Ike's sarcastic contemporaries liked to joke about "the bland leading the bland," about his goofy grin and the stack of Zane Grey westerns on his night table. He was forever playing golf or fishing, or otherwise treating the White House, they said, as a pleasant retirement home. And there was Ike's language, those famously incoherent press conference sentences that used to move across an idea like a dense fog; the technical term for the disease is anacoluthon, the sentence that careers around several corners and then lands in a ditch, its wheels spinning...
...nation's 35.2 million Social Security recipients are receiving a pleasant surprise this month. Their July checks have been increased by a helpful 14.3%. Like about one-quarter of all Americans, they are receiving a cost of living adjustment (COLA) designed to ease the pain of inflation. As double-digit price rises continue to erode their incomes, many weary consumers see a COLA as the pause that refreshes. But critics charge that automatic income adjustments may push the U.S. economy into a permanent inflation high...