Word: successful
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...celebrating. A recent opinion poll shows that he enjoys a popularity rating of 74%. Argentina's inflation rate, which reached 30% last June, was pared down to just 2% in October. Moreover, Alfonsin's attempts to restore public confidence in the rule of law have met with success. Indeed, last week Argentina was about to hold its first midterm congressional elections in 20 years, and all signs indicated that Alfonsin and his ruling Radical Party would do well. But any feelings of euphoria were upstaged by jitters over the mysterious rash of bombings. In addition, there was concern that...
...success is skill as an actor: he must pretend to be what he is not. In a federal court in Baltimore last week, John Walker Jr., 48, whose espionage work for the Soviet Union had gone undetected for nearly 20 years, took on his most difficult role: that of compassionate father. "Mr. Walker was more concerned for his son's future than his own," Defense Attorney Fred Bennett told U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II. "I want to do everything I can to help my son Michael," the confessed spymaster and former Navy warrant officer told his lawyer...
...smash for its label, MCA Records, which produced the record for just $200,000, compared with $750,000 for a typical movie sound track. Such stars as Phil Collins and Tina Turner, who contributed songs, accepted lower-than-usual fees in order to meet the budget. The record's success has inspired MCA Records to consider a sequel. Meanwhile, fans of the palmy program will not run out of music. The show's stars, Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson, are each working on a solo album...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly understands how it all came about...
...success of Measure for Measure, it might be argued, lies in the tension between the comedy and the tragedy. Upset the balance and that vital tension can be lost. In the Adams production, the comedy gets so free a reign that the conterpoint suffers and the audience, rather than finding themselves intrigued by the comic possibilities of the script, find themselves more confused about when they should and should not laugh...