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...first time in a long time, Americans will be able to toast the new year with the feeling that it will bring greater prosperity and brighter prospects. With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll rather than in a rut. Looking back, businessmen and consumers can celebrate 1983 as a year of rebound and turnaround. For many industries and labor unions, it was also a year of transition and turmoil that will permanently reshape the economic landscape. Serious threats to growth remain, most notably the ballooning federal...
...couple of goodies we missed. Our heartfelt good wishes for new health and cheer. For Margaret Cimino throughout the new year. To Patrick Sorrento and Brian M. Byrne. To all who shoot pages and off auto here. To Evans and others who type late at night. A big champagne toast, for the future looks bright. We've brought you a year full of gadgets and gidgets To make all the press runs drop back to four digits. To all Crimson followers, joy, sleep and laughter: We hope you'll survive a whole lot of Days After...
...Mark's performance stands out as charismatic, it only serves to reinforce how pathetically mundane and melodramatic the rest of the show seems. Kit and Milly's final toast to "old acquaintance" appropriately underscores the painful irony of the entire performance--that the story's central relationship is never truly developed...
Robison has been grouped with the bleak, minimalist school of New Yorker writers who have succeeded Updike, Cheever, and Salinger. Though Robison writes the occasional Salingeresque sentence ("One morning I was fixing cinammon toast of something and I had to practically he on the counter to keep from going into a complete faint") such puppyish exaggeration is rare. Like Ann Beattie and Frederick Barthelme, she casts a cold and detached eye on her characters, and tends to write spare prose about her spare people. People, what's more, who are distanced from their emotions. We see them the outside, largely...
...lamb patties; veal stew with cherries; Ukrainian honey cake; smetannik, a rich pie of sour cream, jam and nuts; and the celebrated Guriev kasha, a thickened compote of brandied fruits. To round out a Russian banquet, Goldstein provides instructions for a dozen deliciously flavored vodkas, and with them a toast to the meal: Eshte, eshte na zdorovye! Eat, eat to your health! -ByMichaelDemarest