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...actors form a flawless ensemble. Hurt, who bears the heaviest weight of words, and Walken, whose character has the softest edges, deserve particular praise. Director Mike Nichols has imposed a shaping dramatic tension on shapeless lives and on a play that is of necessity loosely structured. His uncanny sense of modern body language brilliantly matches Rabe's sensitivity to verbal gestures. Everyone involved in Hurlyburly (including all its designers) have stared hard, long and with compassionate intelligence into the face of contemporary banality, and found ways of transcending it without falsifying. Theirs is an important work, masterly accomplished...
...realm of finance, 1983 may be remembered as the year that competition rumbled through the banking industry and rattled its foundations. To be sure, bankers have long vied with one another to offer customers the shiniest toasters or softest Teddy bears, but they have not had to compete where it counts: in the interest they pay for their basic savings and checking deposits. That situation is now changing. In a move to ease restrictions that had been in force since the Great Depression, federal regulators last month freed banks and savings and loan associations to pay whatever interest they wish...
After a time, the Brewers began to drift, as the hardest and softest losers invariably do, to the other clubhouse to commend the winners. "Step aside men," one of the Cardinal coaches said. "Here comes Mr. Kuenn." Six weeks after the Milwaukee manager had a prosthesis fitted for his right leg, amputated below the knee because of a circulation crisis in 1980, he was already on a golf course, playing, and he is eager to be there again. "After these last three weeks," Kuenn said, "you can scream while I'm putting and I won't mind...
Consequently, the commanders opted for a pause that would allow them to pick off the softest points on the Argentine perimeter-radar posts, ammunition dumps and artillery concentrations-while trying to draw enemy troops out of their prepared positions onto open ground, where they could be surrounded. About 1,000 of the occupying troops in Port Stanley were believed to be elite marines, the best fighters Argentine Commander Menendez had at his disposal. The remainder were relatively untrained conscripts who might prove to be vulnerable to such tactics, although, as one British paratrooper said, "a gun in the hands...
...every bit as enthusiastically and hopefully as the primitive clutching that rock. The very act of engagement, and continued involvement, changes the dimensions and character of a person's thinking about himself and his environment. Our new department is therefore not only about hardware but also about the softest software of all: the human mind...