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What happened? The reasons for the slump may spell out a cautionary tale for coffee producers, who now seem to be passing the peak of a price climb as dizzying as the one in sugar in 1974. In brief, consumers did rebel: American per capita consumption last year was less than 95 lbs., down 8½ lbs. from 1973. At the same time, growers, enticed by the high prices, overplanted, and are now turning out more sugar than anyone wants to buy. World production in the crop year ending Aug. 31 is forecast to be 87.7 million tons...
...Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy protested that GM could do so only by making nearly all its cars as small as the boxy-looking subcompact Chevette. But that may not happen after all. In a "hypothetical scenario" submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington.* GM engineers spell out in some detail how they intend to meet the mileage standards while still producing about as wide a range of models as GM makes now. The principal methods: making engines less powerful and using a variety of technological tricks to reduce car weight. Presumably, the other automakers will pursue...
TODAY, Sennet writes, "we remain under spell of the Romantic performers' code that art transcends text, but we lack their passion, and a certain innocence with which they took themselves so seriously." Writing The Fall of Public Man, Sennett must have hoped that some of that innocence would return. But his fresh perceptions on fashion and theater are overwhelmed by the inconsistencies of his argument. And Sennett is left a dandy in the most embarrassing position of having nothing...
...center of the new Quincy House production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the lush poetry of Shakespeare and images of reverie and nightmare, woven together carefully, like a spell. In Titiana's bower, the fairies, who also appear as the courtiers and in two choreographed scenes at the beginning and the end of the show, develop insect-like personalities and the dark underside of Puck is revealed. The elaborate production has been sealed together by the people who brought The Beggar's Opera to Adams House last year. In the stage's flood of dark blue light...
This massive exercise in suspended disbelief works because the early reels are leisurely devoted to showing how certain interesting coincidences fall into place for the mission's chief planner (Robert Duvall, being excellent again), and how this entirely reasonable fellow begins to fall under the spell of lucky chance. He is in effect the audience's surrogate. Once all his questions have been answered, it seems churlish, indeed downright ungrateful, not to go along with him and the plot he is spinning...