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High Table at Lowell was another distinctly non-Kansas event, and the night I attended the guests included Cardinal Cushing, the archbishop of Boston, and the chemistry professor who synthesized quinine. The emulations of Oxbridge seemed some-what self-conscious, but the sherry was smooth and His Eminence was grand company, relaxed rather than ecclesiastical...
...clashing visions, each seeking to shape the destiny of the dynamic territory and, by extension, the new China emerging on the international stage. Tung, an unassuming tycoon who is widely known to Westerners as C.H., has the credentials to reassure both investors and Beijing that the transition will be smooth and that Hong Kong will continue to prosper. Lee, the well-born and high-powered barrister, is speaking for those who fear China will strip away the political liberties Hong Kong has just begun to enjoy and destroy the rule of law on which its reputation as an international business...
Stansky: I'm not counting on a very smooth environment, or straight up or straight down. You get a lot of people with a shorter trigger these days. It's not like you can go in and buy every stock and just wait until you hit the right price, where your only risk is time. The stocks that come up short in performance numbers, at least in the near term, are the stocks that get hit very hard and very quickly...
...thereafter, for the New Deal conceived of the vast public work as an expression of shared potential, communal will and can-do. Its epitome, though, was the skyscraper, that uniquely American form. As a symbol of Promethean energy, the skyscraper has never been surpassed. It is the architecture of smooth-flowing congestion, an American ideal, and it took ever more glorious forms in such designs as the Empire State Building and the great, self-sufficient urban complex of Rockefeller Center...
MOVIES . . . FATHER'S DAY: Producer-director Ivan Reitman's film never develops into much more than a situation, notes TIME's Richard Schickel, a situation with the sole rationale of placing smooth, sardonic Billy Crystal, playing a successful lawyer named Jack Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most...