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...economy has serious problems. Inflation, currently running at 15%, has been worsened by the government's new minimum-wage level, which hiked the lowest pay for mostly black farm and domestic workers by 66% and increased wages for commercial and industrial employees by 23.5%. A year-end dry spell may cost the country as much as 30% of its current maize crop. A shortage of gasoline has been exacerbated by hoarding and by disruptions of pipe lines and rail shipments by the raids of antigovernment guerrillas who operate from neighboring Mozambique and are reportedly aided by South Africa...
...variety of rhythms and melodies in songs like "Ocean" and "Electric Co." October has some additional instrumentation, but sticks more to the now-established formula. People forgive a lack of innovation in traditional folk music, but the rock world is faster paced, and failure to generate new ideas could spell out a group's doom, a problem in particular for New Wave groups who deal with a more limited range of permissible rhythms...
Perhaps the angriest reaction came from Israel's main ally, the U.S. At week's end, the State Department declared that in retribution it was suspending the U.S.-Israeli agreement on strategic cooperation signed in Washington just three weeks previously. Technical talks scheduled for January to spell out practical details of the agreement will not take place...
...that eventually won her an Academy Award. When the film was first shown to her and the ever compliant Fisher, they thought it was so bad that they threw their drinks at the screen. She felt more at home in Cleopatra, but off-camera she quickly fell under the spell of Burton, her Antony. He, in turn, held her in contempt, at least at the beginning. As Fisher-not the most objective source, to be sure-tells the story, Burton was mainly interested in latching on to the international fame that Liz so abundantly had. "You don't need...
...Haven they spell presumptuous A-T-T-I-C-U-S, for the Atticus bookstore-cafe. A good place for highbrow wimps who are willing to pay $4 for a slice of dry cheesecake, just to be seen there. For anyone else, this place has "avoid" stamped all over it. We were told the Atticus was fashioned after a cafe on Newbury St. in our own Boston. We don't know, we've never been there...