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...final night in Palm Springs, Cooney acknowledged that he had not looked very sharp sparring the past few days. "I don't know what's wrong with me. No boost. I'll snap out of it." Angry scrapes under his right eye and across the hump of his nose?from roughhousing in his hotel room, not in the ring?had obviously been hindering him. To protect against aggravating the cut and necessitating another postponement, he had to wear a cumbersome headgear with a blinding nose strip. He sometimes looked worse than slow, full of doubts...
...runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled and said: "This was just about the most satisfying win of my driving career." Yes, but would you mind holding still for one more snap, please...
...recession has naturally had an effect. It has cut into the number of offers some graduates receive, from the usual five or six to perhaps two or three, and skittishness over the economy caused some June grads to snap up jobs hastily in January or February. But even General Motors and Ford in Detroit's hard-hit auto industry are hiring engineers from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering at salaries ranging from $24,000 to $28,000 a year...
Such signals are hardly conclusive; in part they represent nothing more than a rebound from January's extraordinarily depressed production levels, which were brought on by a monthlong cold snap across much of the nation. Moreover, several major banks last week raised their prime interest rate on business loans back up to 16½%, canceling the half-point drop of a week earlier and reinforcing a winter-long level of sky-high interest charges that could all too easily abort an early recovery from recession, or keep the rebound weak when it does begin...
...dialogue rarely drops below this level of snap in Lion in Winter; its showers of sparks keep the production moving through more than two hours of miraculously complex family machinations. Henry, aging at 50 and increasingly anxious about England's future under his three bickering sona, wants to give everything to John, the youngest and least appealing of the brood. Eleanor, his Queen, who in youth divorced the King of France for a tempestuous marriage with Henry, has aged too and embittered; all she has left is determination to thwart Henry's choice, whatever desire of his she can detect...