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...where most of Mimi's singing is done. It seems doubtful that her deficiencies are readily curable. She must have known early in rehearsal that the experts had been right to say that a pop singer could not make the leap to Boheme. She might have quit then and sunk a production that depended heavily on her name. That she stayed to take her critical lumps may have been arrogance, or it may have been a rare act of gallantry. ?By John Skow
Other products have sunk for a variety of unexpected reasons. In 1980 Campbell received a tepid response to its new instant soup. The product was a single serving of highly concentrated soup to which the consumer added boiling water. As it happened, this was scarcely more instant than Campbell's regular soup, to which a consumer simply adds water or milk and then boils. General Foods stirred a short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed...
...Reagan, thus becoming the sole high-level Soviet official with whom the President has held discussions zin more than 3½ years in office. Out of that session, at the very least, will come a fresh reading on the high-stakes state of relations between the superpowers, which have sunk to their lowest point in two decades. The meeting could also show some signs of diplomatic movement, perhaps even a breakthrough agreement of some sort. Finally, it could set the tone for U.S.-Soviet diplomacy in a second Reagan Administration...
...subsoil has caused parts of the city to sink, in some places as much as 30 ft., a process worsened by periodic earthquakes. The redoubtable Palace of Fine Arts, which looks rather like some turn-of-the-century world's fair pavilion made of vanilla ice cream, has sunk nearly 10 ft. since it was completed in 1934. The 16th century church of San Francisco, which has sunk 5 ft., can be approached only by going down a flight of stone stairs. At the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, just north of the city, the original basilica tilts...
...past two years, the President has been forced to administer draconian economic medicine, including higher taxes, currency controls and widespread layoffs in ailing industries. As a result, unemployment has risen to about 10% (vs. 7.2% when Mitterrand was elected), and the President's popularity rating has sunk to an all-time low of 35%. In last month's elections for the European Parliament, the Socialist share of the vote dropped to 20.8% from 37.5% in the 1981 legislative elections. Mitterrand's Communist partners fell to their lowest point in more than 50 years, with...