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This shift mirrors a vast change in American and international perceptions. In the palmy days of the 1920s, the economy seemed to be a machine that ran automatically. It might develop rattles and knocks during wars and speculative panics, but most experts believed it should be left to follow its own self-correcting laws-i.e., be ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment...
...months, it has sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra...
...Olivia's life permeates Heat and Dust, and enables Anne to live as Olivia ought to have lived, single, independent and pregnant. The cast of supporting actors gives splendid performances. Nickolas Grace's Harry bridges the gap between Olivia and Anne. During the 1920s he is the carefree, slightly morose house guest of the prince who becomes a confidant of Olivia. In 1982 he tries to explain to Anne what motivated the earlier characters Grace gives a delightfully stylized and vapid performance endowing Hany with deeply sunk eyes and a degenerate sense of humor...
...purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare...
Simenon was an eager refugee from his drab upbringing as the son of an insurance clerk in Liège, Belgium. He took on Paris in the 1920s with a sharp eye for a quick score, promoting himself as a pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical...