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...trade group was shocked to see the results of a similar survey they ran three weeks later, between Sept. 26 and 29. Thity-seven percent of companies said that as a result of reduced access to short-term credit, they had cut capital spending during the previous month. Twenty-six percent had frozen or reduced hiring, and 22% had considered layoffs. Ten percent had reduced inventory, and 7% had contemplated closing stores or factories. Workers and customers of the world, those are effects you'll feel...
...aren’t just dinners in the dining hall when the hot meal seems less than appealing. A phrase first penned by Shakespeare, “Salad Days” is also the title choreographer Sara Hook gave to the production comprised of seven of her short, satirical dances that took place Saturday evening at the Harvard Dance Center. In addition to being the Harvard Dance Program’s opening production this season, “Salad Days” was first show entirely made up of pieces choreographed by Hook...
...Kimya Dawson or the Juliana Hatfield Three were to turn electronic, it is likely High Places would be the result. Between the Pearson vocal tracks, there are various instrumental interludes that feature Barber’s talents and facilitate the album’s flow. While these are merely short breaks, the instrumentals in and of themselves are mystical and magical, but also crucial, for they create much of the mood and ambience. Barber’s use of loops and syncopated rhythms covers everything from the sounds of the tribal and primordial to the modern and futuristic. The sixth...
...from awful, though. Most of the songs are pleasant enough; it’s just that save for a few, nothing stands out. It’s when compared with the rest of Kings of Leon’s corpus that “Night” really falls short. It’s like getting Southern Comfort when you ordered Moonshine—sugary, weak, and not at all what you were hoping for. Other than “Sex on Fire,” there are relatively few songs that really grab your attention (unless you count...
...concerns that haunt most everyone. Loneliness is horrifying, and misery is unavoidable. But thanks to Elizabeth Strout’s indomitable characters and the empathetic way she treats them, the stories are also an enjoyable read.“Olive Kitteridge” is a collection of 13 short stories about the residents of a small town in Maine. The stories focus on characters of different ages and occupations, all with some connection to Kitteridge, who plays a prominent role in some of the stories and a small one in others. While Strout’s characters find themselves...