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Square vendors of such cupid day constants ascards, candy and stuffed animals say they aredoing a brisk business among love-sick--orlove-lorn--Cantabrigians, many of whom arestudents...
Monsanto, which reports brisk sales in its new product, insists that milk from BGH-treated cows is indistinguishable from ordinary milk. The Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the American Medical Association agree. Says FDA Commissioner David Kessler: "There's virtually no difference between treated and untreated cows...
...downside of disciplined filmmaking. Even though the movie is quarried out of a substantial fictional trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis, it plays more as anecdote than as a fully developed narrative. It feels somehow ephemeral -- a glancing blow, not quite a knockout. Still, emotional acuity, expressed with brisk intelligence, is not a common movie commodity, and it ought to be valued when you come across...
Ives is a wondrous wordmaster and, as spiffily directed by Jason McConnell / Buzas, these elfin works could be called Stoppard Lite. But they are really Beckett Brisk, for they are about the creative process, frantic and forlorn, of getting through life. They suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing...
Buoyed by this new and cautious confidence, buyers are coming back into stores, showrooms and real estate offices to take advantage of sales and attractively low interest rates. With 30-year fixed mortgage rates now at about 7%, single-family housing starts have returned to the brisk pace of the mid-1980s. The resurgent real estate market has boosted demand for furniture, carpets, appliances and everything else that helps make a house a home. Many consumers have also taken the savings they realized from refinancing their mortgages and are buying new cars at a rate that has led some...