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...their food prices will skyrocket to Common Market levels. Their fears are shared by shopkeepers who are up in arms over the extra record keeping that will be required when Britain adopts the Continental-style value added tax-essentially, a 10% sales levy that will hit virtually everything from razor blades to Rolls-Royces...
...shunted from prison to prison-suggests political reform, social outrage, harrowing character study and, ultimately, Kafka. But thanks to the skill of the superb comic actor Alberto Sordi and the subtly inflected direction of Nanni Loy (The Four Days of Naples), Why is a comedy that smiles like a razor...
Samaras' sense of texture is acute, and he uses it to produce visual effects that are almost physically painful. His boxes bristle with pins and blades and wires; a pocket edition of Dante's Divine Comedy gapes and a pair of scissors holding a double-edged Gillette razor snicks out of it; a stuffed bird. Box 55, nestles in a bed composed not of twigs but of thousands upon thousands of sharp glass fragments. The textures, in short, are not to be touched; they are real enough to wound, but they do not pertain to the "real" world...
...19th century sword guard of the blue-black copper alloy known as shakudo, inlaid with gold maple leaves (the gold patchy, as in autumn), is sumptuous enough. But the idea of dying with so delicate a work of art attached to one's stomach by two feet of razor-sharp steel could only have arisen in Edo Japan. ·Robert Hughes
...competition is coming from Japan. More than two dozen Japanese firms, including Canon, Sony, Hitachi and Panasonic, have started producing and exporting the small calculators. Following the strategy that they used so successfully with transistor radios, the Japanese are trying to corner the market by lowering prices and accepting razor-thin profits on high volume. But for once, American producers seem able to stand on their own feet. U.S.-produced calculators are made on almost totally automated assembly lines, thus eliminating Japan's advantage of cheaper labor...