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Rafelson, however, refuses to let these betrayals unwind in their own frenetic fashion. Scenes of furious violence are undercut by his reluctance to leave the action before every angle has been explored. The result is a collection of brilliant scenes which don't seem to be related in time. Playwright David Mamet has taken most of the xenophobia and complication out of Cain's novel, and left in their places huge gaps for Rafelson to muse over. But one suspects Rafelson didn't even notice...
Between semesters, most Harvard students try to leave Cambridge to visit friends or relatives and unwind after exams. The last Saturday of intersession, co-captain Lauren Norton and the women's hockey team were outside of Cambridge, but they were on a bus bound for Ingalls Rink in New Haven, due to face off against Yale in an important Ivy League contest...
Never, never, never, I beg of you, go the way of incomes policies [wage and price guidelines] in the sense that you say, "You can only have X percent." You build in all sorts of rigidities. Never go that way, because you'll spend the next two years unwinding the distortions. And they always unwind upward...
...savings, which was down to a paltry 3.5% of disposable income in January, has risen to 4.7%. Says William McDonald of Woodward & Lothrop, a Washington-based department store chain: "Consumers were made to believe it was unpatriotic to buy with credit, and that mood will be very slow to unwind...
Rogue Male is still selling. And so are many of the 27 other books that Household, now 79, has turned out since. They are set all over the world, and told by a variety of narrators. But some of the best, like The Sending, unwind in the mind of a Somerset Englishman. There the old white magic continues to cast its spell...