Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until all hours of the night in this or that nightspot, especially Xenon...
...haul was a collection of Goya prints owned by Jaime de Mora y Aragon, brother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium. De Mora's first estimate of his losses: $640,000. "I am ruined," said Felici Cultrera, an Italian who lost $250,000 in jewels and who was quick to offer a $100,000 reward...
...produced the sort of wide-ranging answers needed. What is acknowledged is that there are no quick fixes. The only lasting solution would be an upturn in the world economy, setting the industrialized world's plants humming with new business, lessening calls for protectionism, and increasing demand for the borrowing nations' commodities. That would sharply improve the economies of the Third World and the East bloc as well and in turn make it easier for them to repay borrowings on time and in full. Says Nicholas Hope, chief of the World Bank's external-debt division: "Trying...
Besides the long flashbacks, there is nothing particularly experimental about the filming itself. The friendship between Stingo and the couple, for instance, develops through a fairly traditional quick succession of lyrical scenes--the three dancing, picnicking on the Hudson, whirling through Coney Island, walking to the top of a floodlit bridge. The sex scenes are carefully elliptical--more so than the book and the Auschwitz sequence, while suggesting horrors, discreetly avoids trying to show the unspeakable. The score is as lush as scenery and plot. The near-perfection with which everything fits together, technically and artistically, may be what...
...Martin S. Feldstein, Summers seems almost out of place--as if he were back in Cambridge leisurely receiving a visitor during office hours. But as the 45-minute interview progresses and the public finance expert is constantly interrupted by a stream of telephone calls or colleagues asking for a quick bit of advice, the outsider is brought back to Summers' real present world of three-page memos, staff meetings, and access to some of the Administration's top policy makers...