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...continuing economic decline. According to government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers, who already find it difficult to make ends meet. Though wages have risen 40% this year, prices have doubled...
...pomp and ceremony, the Versailles summit [June 14] failed to put forward any concerted plan to overcome the economic crisis or to help the Third World. Though mutual pledges were exchanged and an appearance of unity was displayed, once the spell of Versailles has faded, each of the seven will lapse again into nationalistic self-interest. The Western world badly wants unity, but the summit was just another show of pageantry...
...best French painter to fall under Caravaggio's spell was, however, Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). His own Fortune Teller (the subject was perhaps bound to be popular in a country as worried about the future as early 17th century France) is condemned at the moment to a period of freakhood, thanks to 60 Minutes, which briefly rose from its usual torpor about cultural affairs to pillory it as a modern forgery. Reputable scholars agree, however, that there is no real question about The Fortune Teller's authenticity; its age has now been scientifically confirmed. It remains...
Four months ago, no financial aid officer would have believed the academic year could end so calmly. The 1983 budget proposed in February by President Reagan recommended some $2.3 billion in aid cuts for higher education and seemed to spell disaster for universities already strapped by inflation rates and dropping enrollments. Schools that could count on surviving--like Harvard, blessed with a plump endowment and the resources to raise more--expected painful soul-searching over whether they could maintain generous financial aid policies to guarantee equal access...
...Rake-inspired by the famous series of Hogarth engravings-tells the story of Tom Rakewell (Tenor Gösta Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright...