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...melodramatic, without Nevelson's clear sense of formal diction. She knows exactly how far a space can be loaded with shapes before congestion takes over. And as a rule, her shapes are marvelously clear and decisive, a dream geometry of arcs, circles, balls and triangles, alternating with rougher and more battered fragments of wood. In this variety of texture and profile, which runs from Platonic solid to inchoate lump, her formal system seems to suggest the layers of definition from which memory itself is composed...
...spending, restore incentive. She pleads for time-at least two more years-to let her new "freedoms" work, but even among allies there is some skepticism. Complains a Tory newspaper publisher: "She didn't tell us it would be this bad." Her own Treasury ministers warn that much rougher tunes lie ahead, and some are queasy about the next election, even though it is probably four years away. The statistics of Thatcher's first year are grim. Inflation doubled, to 20%. Unemployment reached a postwar high of 1.5 million (6%) and is still rising. Interest rates soared...
Baba (Belle Linda Halpern) appears as dark as her troubled soul. Her voice, a bit weaker and rougher than Monica's, blends smoothly with her daughter's. When they sing a lullaby to calm Baba, the soothing voices hardly betray that the lullaby is about a dead lover with "eyes of glass and feet of stone...
...four fast jolts of his ski poles, Stock propelled himself out of the starting gate and launched into the knifing and chittering switchback turns at the course's top. He shot through them with a wildly debonair angling, self-assured, and then, as the course got straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction...
...other singles draw, junior Meg Meyer cruised to the finals of her bracket Saturday, only to find the going a bit rougher Sunday...