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...fourth installment. The first wild surge of narrative invention has steadied to a reliable chug. The author's moves are clever and effective, but they are known. Her characters have told the darkest of their secrets. Erdrich's instinct, as the momentum of an anecdote is about to tail off, is to save matters with literary magic. This works, often brilliantly, but it works again and again, which may be a few astonishments too many...
...scenic design, by John Arnone, is appealing once your eyes adjust to the glare. The stage is framed by a painted screen decorated with cheesy '50s icons (tail fins, an "I Like Ike" button) and the omnipresent numerals 1-9-5-7. (That's the year, get it?) Howell Binkley's lighting comes in the same day glo hues, and succeeds most notably when the choreography is silhouetted against bright orange and yellow backlight. The costuming is outrageously gaudy; after the fifth combination of pink and black leather you begin to long for some nice pastels...
...Davis: No. That's pure nonsense. The 1980s was purely going on overextending debt and looking for never-never land. Balance sheets meant nothing in the 1980s. Today anybody who takes on a load of debt is going to work his tail off to bring it down. You can't just call up a Drexel or a Goldman or a Merrill Lynch and say, gee, I've got this wonderful idea, I need 7 billion bucks, do you think you can finance...
...hope you enjoy a tail-end of the year...
Gale grew up in an era when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams...