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...Parisians themselves helped to twist my fruitless venture into a routine exercise in humiliation by placing me at the mercy of either their effusive kindness or black hearted contempt. One garrulous shopkeeper held me captive with a rapid-fire series of cheerful comments and questions, most of which flew past my comprehension. A neighboring grocer whacked my hand and swept me out of the store when I squeezed a tomato. The fact that I was unable to find simple and moderate good-naturedness among the Parisians left me jangled and teary-eyed at the end of each...
...boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both more adult among friends and more lighthearted with Skip's mother, Ellen. But because Carlino does not indulge in psychology sleight of hand, making Jonathan's emotional maturation too rapid-fire, he never presents the relationship between the boy and his best friend's mother as more than it could credibly be. Once Jonathan discovers Ellen is in fact Ellen Burroughs, his loyalties fall resoundingly and reassuringly to the son, not the mother...
...count, he had compiled a list of 60 adjectives applied to the emerging recovery. The tone of the list has been changing dramatically. Only six months ago, Heller says, economists were calling the recovery "weak, wobbly, puny, pokey, measly, muted and miserable." Now, however, the rebound has suddenly become "rapid, robust, snappy, surging, brisk, bullish and a barn burner...
Liberal economists argue that fears of a too rapid recovery are overblown. Says Heller: "We have lots of headroom for expansion and no prospect of revived inflation for quite a long stretch ahead." Heller points out that wage costs, a central element of inflation, are still declining. Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein challenges the common assumption that the money supply is expanding too fast. He notes that M2 and M3, two broader measures of money that include various types of savings accounts, are growing within their target ranges. The narrower M1 figures, he adds, may have been distorted by the swift...
...inducing computer graphics. Says E.T. Director Steve Hirsen, a veteran of CBS News: "We're not heavy journalists, so we have more freedom. We can use visual flips and 'up' music, which you can't use after a story on the bombing of Beirut." The rapid-fire items are introduced by Anchors Ron Hendren and Mary Hart, who are both perky and chirpy enough to have sprung fresh from the set of a vintage Andy Howar movie...