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...precious to waste on flowery descriptions or circumlocutions. One character commands another, "Speak simple Yiddish," the language in which all these tales were originally written, and the English translations by the author and others do their best to obey the spirit of this injunction. Storytellers appear suddenly, with scant preamble, and seem eager to get off the page as soon as possible. They punctuate their narratives with such remarks as "To make it short . . ." and "Why drag it out?" The Trap involves yet another caller at the writer's apartment, a woman on crutches who announces, "I'm not going...
...There is scant evidence that Dukakis has a clearly defined vision of his presidency. His disciplined, orderly mind has been understandably fixated on the task at hand -- winning the nomination -- and the rigors of a primary ; campaign leave little time for reflective thinking. On the few occasions that Dukakis has permitted himself to muse aloud about the White House, aides say, there was a puckish glee as he toyed with the ironies of being Governor of all the people. At a recent gubernatorial staff meeting, Dukakis joked that he imagined himself in the Oval Office telling Fred Salvucci, his current...
...couple kill in unforeshadowed haste and repent in wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families on purported instruction from God. Thus it is scant surprise that the Macbeth that opened on Broadway last week used up three directors, two sets and five Macduffs during a six-city tryout tour...
...victory in the annual Harvard-Yale battle earned the Crimson an invitation to the national championship race in Cincinnati, however, and the heavies used the opportunity to regain early-season form and outdistance the powerful Brown Bruins by a scant five feet...
...vote tallies accumulated Tuesday night, it appeared for a time that the Bush effort had fallen short by a scant 3,000 votes. "Missouri is definitely lost," Communications Director Teeley remarked. But when the last precincts in St. Louis suburbs were heard from, Bush had won by a margin of 4,500. Dole had failed to carry a single state, while Robertson's organizers managed to win the poorly attended caucuses in Washington State. Talking about the primaries, Atwater exulted, "A clean sweep. A shutout. It doesn't get any better than this...