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...Politically, we have got a fantastic victory," claimed Nabavi. "A superpower has been pushed to the conclusion that it promised not to interfere in Iranian affairs any more. We have made such a great power confess and put it to paper." Summed up Nabavi: "The hostages are like a ripe fruit from which all the juice has been squeezed out. Let them...
...Nevelson remembers her father taking to his bed for weeks at a time when things got too much for him. Her mother was "misplaced in every conceivable way"-intelligent, pretty, neurasthenic, miserable in her marriage but devoted to her offspring. By the prevailing standards of Maine she had a ripe sense of style; she rouged her cheeks and dressed as though she were in New York City, thus laying the foundation of her daughter's passion for maquillage as armor and costume as spectacle. Her father's ventures prospered, and within the inward-turned circle of her family...
...novel takes the form of Toomey's memoirs related in ripe old age. His first line is meant to be a grabber: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." The cleric wants to discuss K.M.T.'s role in the canonization of Campanati, the recently deceased "Pope Gregory XVII." Many years before in Chicago, Toomey had witnessed Campanati's miraculous healing of a child dying from meningitis...
...present, that is what is happening, and it can continue as long as corporations do not make the shift to robots faster than the natural rate of worker attrition, which now runs as high as 15% in the metalworking plants that are ripe for robotization. (One reason why Japan has been able to shift so extensively to robots is that Japanese corporations have a tradition of caring for their employees for life.) But as the robots take over more and more jobs-and they can do the more pleasant and interesting tasks as well as the dull and dirty ones...
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben--Richard Strauss' self-portrait, "A Hero's Life," is perfect music for Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia, lush to over-ripe, revealing to the point of embarrassment. Strauss the Pompous might be laughable but for his true musical genius, sumptuously recorded here...