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...might play, but I doubt he could do a better job of it than Gelber. Even if it sometimes sounds like he just got off boat yesterday, and his accent has more of the West Side than the West End in it, Gelber still pulls off the kind of smooth and assured performance rare enough on the professional stage, let alone a Harvard House basement. One can watch the flow of emotions and thoughts in Gelber's Teddy; his grief and pride in his two friends are the truly touching parts of this production. After watching Gelber's translucent performance...
...Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies. Experts also agree that while the pace of Deng's reforms may be slowed, they will not be rolled back. The fall of the reform-minded Hu Yaobang, however, muddies the outlook. His ouster could turn what had shaped up as a smooth transition of leadership into a bitter brawl for succession once Deng leaves power...
...incentive for chiseling by cutting the maximum tax rate from 50% to an eventual 28%. But tax experts doubt that the shelter game is over. Says John McAtee, a securities lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell: "The Government will continue to create new loopholes to accomplish economic and social goals." Smooth-talking operators will continue to tempt wealthy investors with creative -- and not always legitimate -- ways to use those loopholes...
...Please pass the chips." Time was when that request led to a predictable result: a crackling treat of smooth, fragile, bitingly salty potato chips. No longer. Now staggering possibilities abound: chips sliced from white or sweet potatoes that could be thick or thin, ridged or smooth, and with or without salt and preservatives. They might be natural in flavor or seasoned with Cajun, Italian or barbecue spices, vinegar, jalapeno peppers, cheese alone or with bacon, sour cream (or yogurt) with onion (or chives). There is also a choice of half a dozen or so oils for frying, which...
...distinctive Kettle Chips. "Oregonians like the fact that they are eating chips made from potatoes grown in this state." In Pennsylvania Dutch country, said to be the capital of potato-chip production, Michael Rice, president of Utz Quality Foods, uses cottonseed oil to fry his delicately satisfying line of smooth and ridged chips. But three years ago he introduced a fried-in-lard adaptation of the original potato chip developed by his grandparents in 1921. "Grandma Utz's chips do well in Pennsylvania," Rice reports, "but not in Baltimore or Washington...