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Retton had her turn on the mat next. Nowhere is the difference in the two performers' styles more apparent. If Szabo is European velvet, Retton is muscular American brashness. No one can generate her speed or leap to her heights; she can do numbers in floor exercises known only to men. On her first tumbling run, she pounded out enough time in the air to pull off a layout double back somersault, and exploded into a dazzling smile. It did not dim for the rest of her routine. When she landed her final twisting somersault, she had notched...
GRANTED, the sheer tunefulness of the best songs on this album is of some interest. "I Love You Suzanne," with Reed's crude lead guitar work winding around Fernando Saunder's bass run, should prove a breezy reintroduction for this ex-Velvet into the Top-40. "High in the City" pays tribute to urban joys, while nonchalantly accepting accompanying hassles of the city streets. Here, notice Reed's funny, offhand delivery of lines like: "Hey, look they're setting fire to that jeep. There's not much you can keep...
...whole album permeates a sense of regression and risklessness; perhaps the most disheartening song on the album. "What Becomes a Legend Most," epitomizes this stepping back. A rip-off of Reed's earlier classic with the Velvet Underground, "New Age," the song signals an emptiness that has gripped this slugger. This man needs some new ideas. Limply rehashing old material does not become a legend...
...Larosière defends the IMF'S often harsh terms as unavoidable. Adjustment measures for some countries, he says, "will necessarily be severe." But it does take a combination of velvet glove and iron fist to keep the world debt situation in control. De Larosière uses the soft approach on the IMF'S 22-man board of executive directors, who must eventually approve all IMF loans. Though they are people of varying views, he manages to compromise and persuade, while holding the trust...
...Velvet G Miller, currently a student at the Kennedy School of Government, will replace Susan Himmelfarb as associate director of the Kennedy School's Lucius N. Miller Mid-Career Master of Public Administration program, Harvard officials announced this week...