Word: unevennesses
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...uneven quality of the writing, which sometimes reads like a TV show without the pictures, is more than compensated for by the conclusions reached. We may think of ourselves as a society of entrepreneurs, for instance, but the risk takers, according to this battlefield survey, are often among the bodies left behind. As one financial expert interviewed by the authors put it, "Gold rushes finish ugly." Even so, in a business environment where the average corporation survives just six years, little companies with wit and guts can still occasionally outmaneuver corporate goliaths. Stories of a few that have provide some...
...only a bit above the anticipated rate of inflation, thus allowing Reagan to claim that he has in effect "frozen" expenditures in real terms and cut them $32 billion below what would be paid out if all Government programs continued unchanged. But the so-called freeze would be extremely uneven. After adjustment for inflation, military outlays would jump 9%. Civilian spending in real terms would drop 3%, but only if the Administration is correct in calculating that even a creeping economic recovery will reduce payments for unemployment compensation and farm-price supports by $15 billion. That drop is not included...
...Levinson, are married. The picture is a skewed documentary about two professionals working hard to be both witty and romantic. This time they worked too hard. In an attempt, perhaps, to place a discreet distance between confession and comedy, they allowed the tone of their script to become jarringly uneven. Barnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy, as Paula's parents, are repositories of senile pathos; Audra Lindley, as Richard's mom, is a shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood on his own. One can still savor the moments...
...journey to this poignant, uneven movie, through a succession of worse and better ones, began in Cleveland Heights, a comfortable suburb of Cleveland, where Paul was born in 1925. He was the second son of Arthur S. Newman, a prosperous Jewish partner in a sporting-goods store, and Theresa Fetzer, a Hungarian-descended Catholic. By the time Paul and his brother Arthur, now 58, a film production manager living in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., were children, Theresa was a Christian Scientist. Paul's exposure to that faith did not make any lasting impression (he has followed no religion...
DIED. Frank Swinnerton, 98, novelist, belletrist and chronicler of English literary life for 70 years; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Born outside Victorian London, Swinnerton turned out 62 uneven but cheerfully unpretentious books. His intricately plotted, somewhat Victorian novels included Nocturne (1917) and Death of a Highbrow (1961), a book that he and his critics regarded as his best. The agreeable Swinnerton had a gift for making extraordinary friends (among them H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, G.B. Shaw and Aldous Huxley), whose lives he recounted in several spirited but gentlemanly memoirs...