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...fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings about Mob leader John Gotti, the other by Richard Morgan about advertising mogul Burt Manning -- that are spun off from books. The juiciest item is about the marital breakup of billionaire businessman John Kluge. The weakest, a rambling travelogue of Prague, is by editor in chief Jane Lane. Overall, if Details is about night life and style, and Men's Life about home and hearth, M Inc. seems gaga over money...
...think, paradoxically, a lot of what happened in the '80s can be blamed on the politicians of the 1930s. When deposit insurance was written into law in '33, it was almost a free ticket. The banking system had been purged of bad loans the old-fashioned way, the weakest banks had long since failed, and the strong banks were barely making...
...Haydn was the weakest piece on the program. While it began animatedly, the music itself did not follow through. The main problem was one of balance; Pressler's large Steinway grand piano simply took undue precedence over the other instruments. The secondary problem was one of tempo; the pace of the first movement (the development in particular) was a bit slow and pedantic. This was inappropriate for the inherent liveliness and humor of Haydn. As a result, the cadential chords sounded forced and brash...
...blame Ash for failing to explain the beginnings of the antidomino effect. But in this, the weakest essay of the five, he at least could have mused in a more explanatory...
MacFarquhar says it is highly significant that the government launched the actual attack at the democracy movement's weakest moment, when many people were asleep and after many students already had drifted out of Tiananmen Square...