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This is not to say that Miller will succeed. He and Carter are engaged in the trickiest and riskiest of all economic maneuvers: an attempt to slow a surging but vulnerable economy just enough so that inflation gradually subsides, but not so much as to sink the nation into a recession. Administration officials refer to this as guiding the economy to a "soft landing" from its too-rapid pace in the quarter just ended. Estimates of production growth in the second quarter cluster around an annual rate of 9%. Miller prefers to talk of reaching a "sustainable path of growth...
...trickiest ethical decision in journalism so far this year might have been taken, but wasn't, by Kay Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co. Her Newsweek had the legal rights to the H.R. Haldeman book. Her Washington Post had got hold of a copy and wanted to scoop everybody. What...
...trickiest suspense-thrillers in recent theatrical history also opens March 9 at Leverett House. Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth is almost impossible for a viewer to solve--even the playbill is misleading. We really can't say anything else. Sleuth runs March 9,10,11 and 16,17,18 in the Old Library; tickets available at Holyoke Center or at the door...
...DANCE," a one-and-a-half minute gem, is straight-ahead rock and roll, the kind of fast, urgent and purely visceral rock where the cleverness of the lyric is no more than a pleasant but totally superfluous surprise. Costello proves here that his singing is equal to the trickiest tempo and the rawest lyrics; his guitar playing is a wonder, a crashing solo in the best '50s tradition. "I'm Not Angry" gives further evidence of his instrumental strength; here too the guitar work is excellent, searing and fluid in a more contemporary style. It's a truly creepy...
Harold Rappoport, as Mona, has the most subtle, trickiest emotional transition of the play to make. And he carries it off convincingly. In the first act he comes across as nothing but a gutless nebbish, passively accepting any manner of verbal humiliation. But in the second act he shows that he has remained vulnerable by his own choice, because there's a degree of sensitivity that he refuses to lose to the prisoners' tough conformity. When he finally refuses to let Smitty become his "old man," declaring with the Shakespeare sonnet that he cares too much for Smitty to play...