Word: breakneck
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Commerce Department report released on Friday amounts to an impressive display of resilience. Business activity grew at a breakneck rate of 5.8% in the final three months of the year, faster than most experts had predicted. The surge in output lifted 1999's total gross domestic product 4%. That's the third year in a row the economy grew at that rate or better, a feat last accomplished in the late 1970s. When this expansion passes the February milepost, it will become the longest in American history--107 months...
...latest New York City premiere, now being performed on tour, is irresistibly zany--and very, very smart. Set to Ethan Iverson's delectably decorous salon-style arrangements of '20s pop songs, Dancing Honeymoon consists of 15 Chaplinesque vignettes through which Morris and his six yellow-clad dancers hurtle at breakneck speed. Like all great farces, this one is precisely calculated down to the last pratfall; even when the props start flying through the air, everything goes wrong right on time. Keep an eye on Julie Worden, who dances like a Thoroughbred filly and makes faces like Lucille Ball...