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...with gaudy excess. No, no, no. They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually fade. That is in the nature of things. He is full of such slack epigrams, otherwise known as folk wisdom. Though this trait is more laughable than memorable, it serves the function of making him human, despite his wealth, his international wheeling and dealing, his lusty eye for wenches. Indeed, since everyone who has been in reach of a newspaper over the past 15 years knows...
Kazin's style is regularly tutorial rather than autobiographical; a succession of wives and mistresses make brief entrances and exits between mini-essays. Those essays, though, pick up nearly all of the slack of the personal narrative. They recreate some of the events that agitated his circle during the past three decades-the post-Holocaust trauma. Red baiting in the '50s. radicalism in the '60s-and show who lined up where and for what reasons. Kazin himself often wound up in the middle and caught grief from both sides. His scrupulous, sometimes pained explanations make his history...
...energy needs. No more than 40,000 U.S. buildings of all kinds have solar devices, compared with 2 million in Japan and 220,000 (one-fifth of all homes) in Israel. Demand for solar units, which rose after the President's energy message a year ago, is now slack; the industry is troubled by some charlatans and rogues; manufacturers and contractors are confused by new regulations; and buyers are bewildered by on-again, off-again tax credits. As a result, a number of small manufacturing companies are close to bankruptcy...
...delightfully eccentric group of players, and a mammoth budget--courtesy of schlock-producer Frank Yablans. The movie fails not because it's so gory, and not even because DePalma cruelly lingers over the deaths of our favorite characters (although this is annoying), but because the storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy of the marvelous ingredients, and although DePalma has structured several dazzling sequences, loaded with bursts of subjective camerawork and rhythmically perfect editing, there are too many dead spots for the suspense to build properly...
...order to keep a Harvard education from becoming passive and slack, we must try to balance lectures with a constant counterpoint of papers, seminars, tutorials, and discussion sections where students must first make use of what they have read and heard by developing their own thoughts and then expose their work to the scrutiny of more mature minds. These are the experiences most likely to help students think more clearly and precisely yet it is these experiences that are most endangered across the country by huge enrollments and tight financial constraints...