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...weren't depressed you'd be an idiot," one character tells another in Woody Allen's one-acter, Central Park West. The words might equally sum up either of the other two short plays, An Interview and Hotline, that opened off-Broadway last week under the collective title Death Defying Acts. All three offer humor of bile and bite...
...years before it collapses altogether--starting this year--the Social Security system will begin to be a bad deal for increasing numbers of those who do collect benefits. Until now, just about all recipients have got back the sum of their lifetime contributions, plus interest, with just a few years of retirement checks. Everything after that was gravy. But some 1995 retirees will be the system's first losers--meaning the benefits they stand to collect will, on average, fall short of what they paid in Social Security taxes, plus the interest those taxes might have earned if the money...
John is the sum of what he has learned and, of course, borrowed. On the new album you'll hear echoes of A Whiter Shade of Pale in the powerful ballad Man; a hint of mid-period Beatles in the benign Latitude and the jaunty Please; a great big blast of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil in the infectious, wondrously bleak Pain ("My name is pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar...
...sum, the racial preferences that now comprise "affirmative action" were implemented on the cheap, as a hurried, cosmetic substitute for a more serious, comprehensive, and expensive attempt to improve Black opportunities. The consequence was a social policy compromised from the start, pitting white liberals against an increasingly resentful white lower-middle class, and putting Black achievements under a cloud of ambiguity...