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...accounting of the lives of people who have wept only in their dreams. "Somebody knocked at the door and a terrible voice cried 'Telegram!' " Thus ends a story ironically titled Paradise. Dante could draw another circle of hell from the slump of the Moravian woman - stifling her yawn, stifling her scream -as she shuffles to answer...
...after eight months on the shelves, have barely made a dent in the competition. A very few individual brands may yet sell well, but the industry consensus is that light whisky, on the whole, is an idea whose time may never come. "Light whisky has been greeted with a yawn," says Jack Yog-man, president of Joseph E. Seagram, which sells two lights: Galaxy and Four Roses Premium...
Some economists argue, moreover, that the income gap between broom closet and executive suite should continue to yawn wide, for everybody's sake. "I don't think you can narrow the income gap without reducing the nation's real income growth," says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. "You would get less effort out of a whole group of people who are striving to get rich. Our whole incentive structure depends on having income increments...
...back after major surgery, however, breathes less deeply and omits the extra inspirations. His lungs get less oxygen and, as a result, parts may collapse and eventually stop functioning altogether. To overcome this problem, Dr. Robert Bartlett of the University of California at Irvine proposes a simple solution: yawning. Bartlett urges doctors to teach and encourage patients to yawn deeply every five minutes or so, filling the lungs to near ideal capacity. He has invented a spirometer that registers the depth of breathing to encourage patient cooperation, but admits that most patients should be able to go it alone...
...accents that lurk beneath those animal skins are also jarring, and above the Afro-Greek beat of Stanley Silverman's score, one hears the vaguely Elizabethan cadence of Burgess's script. But Langham's sacrifice is worth it. He has taken 20th century audiences, prepared to yawn and genuflect obediently before a dead classic, and shaken them to the bottom of their atavistic souls. He has created an Oedipus that bleeds and thus lives. -Melvin Maddocks