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...attempts to develop a more with-it image. Since he took charge in 1986, Frankel has tried to liven up the 140-year-old paper with more flavorful writing and beefed-up coverage of sports and city news. But the Times has also been giving more prominent play to softer features, such as a piece last week on how celebrities are dealing with a local strike of apartment-building doormen...
Handcuffs, legcuffs, whips, paddles, masks and spread bars (with arm and leg restraints) make up the store's vast sadomasochism section. Rabbit covered handcuffs are available for those into "a softer kind of bondage...
...this tedious production lies with Tennessen, who did an admirable job organizing a 60-piece orchestra, but does a less admirable job coordinating the actual performance. Short bursts of orchestral music which punctuate the vocals are invariably marred by sloppy entrances and exits. The players are tentative on softer passages and overpowering on louder ones. The off-stage chorus, microphoned in, is almost always off-balance and off-sync, and the vocal "jazz trio" is dull and lifeless...
When Fauth speaks of his experiences during this month, his voice becomes softer, more passionate. One senses this was a time that helped him find his own place in the world...
...Says he: "Maybe the biggest bump we'll see in the housing market will be in that section of the country, when we repatriate the troops and they get on with the lives they've put on hold for six to eight months." Thanks to falling interest rates and softer prices, the housing industry's Home Affordability Index is at a 14-year high...