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...greatest threat to Brazil, and all the other NICs, is that the U.S. will try to slash its trade deficit by erecting new trade barriers. To prevent that from happening, the NICs will need to open their own markets wider, buying sophisticated goods and technology from the U.S. Unfettered global competition may be unsettling, but it can boost trade in every direction, and that will ultimately benefit all the players...
...BoDeans should know. Their second album, Outside Looking In (Reprise/ Slash), produced by Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads, is a tuneful advance over their exceptional debut last year, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams. They give those roots a few strong twists, then tie them in tight rhythmic knots. Say About Love could almost come from some rediscovered master of a Buddy Holly session in Clovis, N. Mex. What It Feels Like moves like a cat burglar, sounds fresh as tomorrow and -- well, feels like the future...
Sometimes TV does better when it forgets about reality altogether. In CBS's new fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, a young New York attorney (The Terminator's Linda Hamilton) is accosted after a party by some thugs who slash her face. She is nursed back to health by Vincent (Ron Perlman), a deformed, leonine creature who lives in abandoned tunnels beneath the subways. After she has recovered -- her scars miraculously removed by surgery -- this underground Equalizer becomes her benefactor and partner in fighting crime. The first episode had some inept action sequences and could have used more fanciful detail...
Have you been to Fenway? Have you seen Wade Boggs slash a double down the left-field line? More important, have you devoured a Fenway Frank...
...heat of competition, New York and New Jersey haulers slash rates, by hiring non-union labor, and dump trash from all over the nation into the ocean to beat landfill or incineration fees. Simple economics...