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...self-portrait is shadowy. She likes her tough side, noting that a friend once said, "I've always liked your anger, trusted it." From girlhood, Hellman went for the impulsive gesture, skipping school to trail shady relatives around New Orleans, insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest...
...really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience in on the secret," she says. "It's like giving a party and I am the Grande Hostesse. I always wanted to be Gertrude Stein and have a salon...
Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, cling to the fragile hope that consumers will simply refuse to buy costlier foods and thus slow price rises soon. Portents are not good, partly because of the sharp slowdown in beef production, which remains under freeze until Sept...
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...effects of inflation, the real rate of growth in the gross national product was only 2.6%-down steeply from more than 8% in each of the two preceding quarters. The 2.6% figure was the lowest since the final quarter of 1970, when the economy was in recession. Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, simply does not believe his eyes...