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These worries about economic matters, and about Reagan's handling of them, theoretically spell trouble for the President. Nonetheless, Americans still have a basic optimism about the economic future: 82% said they have some, or a lot of, confidence that brighter times are coming. This suggests that Reagan's standing in the polls would change quickly if the economic picture were to improve...
Once the stuff of science-fiction thrillers, talking machines are quickly becoming a part of modern life. Since 1978, when Texas Instruments introduced the loquacious learning aid Speak & Spell, a brave new world of chatty machines that use computer chips to make them talk has been moving into factory, office and home. This year the market for talking computer products is expected to total $50 million, and by 1985 it could reach $300 million...
...Haydn's 250th birthday is celebrated this week, there are signs that his operas' long spell on the shelf is nearing an end. Through the dedicated efforts of scholars like the indefatigable H.C. Robbins Landon and institutions like the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne, many previously unpublished operas have been carefully edited and issued in critical editions. Eight have been recorded by Conductor Antal Dorati for Philips records...
Many of his best pictures were hung in England. Gainsborough copied his gnarled-oak thickets; Turner's early marine paintings were done under the partial spell of Ruisdael's sea pieces, his slim parallelograms of rusty sail leaning on the wind-chopped estuary. Most of all, John Constable was inspired by his sense of nature seen fresh, without evident convention: the patches of scudding sunlight on wheat fields, the broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might...
...away!" or a slamming door. The character of Natalie seems nowhere near as complex as Johnny's so that the story she narrates occasionally seems to escape her comprehension. The flashback monologues that tic the play together are its weakest stretches, whether because of the lines--which tend to spell out undertones that should be shown--or Thomas' occasionally uninspired reading of them. But such flaws are unimportant alongside a plot which, astonishingly, justifies not only the play's occasional lapses but its considerable length...