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...language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel. The plane's astronomical price tag (at least $40 million each v. $28 million for the less advanced Concorde) left doubts that enough buyers could be found to recapture the $1.3 billion necessary to build a prototype...
...held back mention of the astounding set of 'Tis Pity to the customary tag-end position such matters usually receive in reviews, though this set, designed by a talent named Franco Colavecchio who also did the costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon...
...couldn't sit still or get roaring drunk with T-Bone LaCour every Friday night when I was 13 because my parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip on girls' toes spratfalling yahoo who entered the polevault once that spring and cleared nine feet coming down, joints locked, like a pinwheeling walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond the landing pit and rolling over and over until...
...plan is essentially a compromise between city residents unwilling to see money spent solely for suburbia and suburbanites cool to helping foot the bill for city urban renewal. It will take 20 years to complete, and the price tag will be $1 billion in public and private funds for each paired town. But Dr. Hubert Locke, the project's director and an associate at the Urban Studies Center at Wayne State University, thinks the plan is worth the money...
...millions who are probably shiftless and lazy. In that view, welfare money means, as Ronald Reagan puts it: "A tax increase next year, the year after and the year after that, and on into the future as far as we can see." Thus the worst thing about the price tag of $14 billion is that it satisfies no one; under the system it is unblessed both to give and to receive...