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...trade talks, even without any sanctions being imposed, has helped open the door. Merely the threat of them has persuaded the Japanese to simplify the costly car-inspection procedures for importers and ease the industry's grip on the dealership system. Too much pushing on this front, however, could spoil a good thing. Unresolved trade talks help keep the Japanese concessions coming and the yen strong because the largest source of its trade surplus with the U.S. remains untouched. That is one reason U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor did not impose broad sanctions when Washington and Tokyo failed Sept...
...York Times column, but this is only her second novel -- she has given her story a cumbersome plot frame, involving a grand jury investigation of a mercy killing and a melodramatic double misunderstanding underlying an estrangement between Ellen and her father. This elaboration clutters the novel but does not spoil it. Nor does the sense that beyond its last page, Ellen still has a living parent whom she understands only as a collection of flawed character traits...
...educate, train, break and spoil children in order that, as adults, they be able to protect and carry their cargoes in machineries they revere and enjoy educated adulthood is a childliness that is sure of itself; a child irreverent of himself is in Heaven...
...Bruck amply demonstrates, Ross's charm made him a natural for Hollywood, where everyone is a vortex of ego and where success belongs not to those who count the beans but to those who extravagantly spoil the stars. If Barbra Streisand wanted a painting, why not buy it for her? If Dustin Hoffman was vacationing in Europe, why not provide him with a yacht? If Steven Spielberg was looking for a home in the Hamptons, why not arrange the sale for him? "It's about people, really -- realizing what they want," Ross once told Bruck...
...between the accomplished and the envious, each side etched in acid. Bogosian is politically incorrect enough to play an unappetizing street black, arrogant enough to enact an egomaniacal fan and complex enough to risk a jolting tirade against "starving Africans" who, by their unsettling omnipresence on the evening news, "spoil everything." This rant is at once a wail over injustice and a plea for the surcease of not caring -- and it makes audiences careen between those poles of feeling...