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...properly focused, these measures could be sensible and even effective. But they are little more than cosmetic surgery -- a nip here, a tuck there. What the U.S. economy desperately needs, many experts now argue, is the equivalent of open-heart surgery. The key to the economic transformation: basic investment in capital improvements and not in consumption. The notion would be to rebuild a public environment in which businesses could flourish. In this way, America's waning competitiveness in global markets might be restored...
These performers are British; they were steeped from birth in high style and the seductive melody of theatrical rhetoric. But the leads -- Costner, Mastrantonio, Christian Slater as Will Scarlet, Micheal McShane as Friar Tuck, Morgan Freeman as a Moor displaced in Nottingham -- are all American, intoning flat varieties of American English. They sound like tourists stranded in Sherwood Forest. And they inadvertently give a new meaning to the story: now Robin and his band are vagrant colonials who save England from those who can actually speak the language...
Interviewing Matisse investigates the individual nature of experience. Each woman uses anecdotes from her own past to shape and interpret the telephone conversation. In many ways this preoccupation with their own experiences alienates the women, but it also illustrates that each person necessarily approaches life differently. Tuck may have conveyed this more effectively if Lily and Molly had been less similar--as it is, the two women are nearly interchangeable...
...book that is entirely dialogue risks boring the reader with the lack of action. Tuck avoids this problem by filling the novel with interesting anecdotes, digressions and ironic twists. The reader might occasionally wish that one of the women would have to answer call waiting or otherwise break the tedium, but these moments are rare. For the most part, the reader remains riveted despite the tenuous plot...
Interviewing Matisse, like Molly's conversation with the artist, is not what we expect. But unlike the interview, which is more trivial than Molly had remembered, the novel is richer and more complex than a chat between two shallow women would suggest. Although Tuck never reveals what caused Inez's death, she skillfully demonstrates how Lily and Molly's communication can both isolate and reassure them