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...prices, is spreading even to banks, where reductions on consumer-loan interest rates are running as much as 10%. Some businesses are lowering prices by offering stripped-down versions of standard products and selling them for less money, often with impressive results. Miami's Deltona Corp., a major builder of Florida retirement houses, tripled sales in January over the previous year by introducing a line of houses starting at $17,800; such once standard features as carports and fancy lighting fixtures are now offered as extra-cost options. Except for Chrysler, which plans to continue rebates on leftover...
...U.D.C. has been a prodigious builder. In just seven years it has completed or started housing for 33,000 families, as well as numerous civic and commercial projects and three "new towns," one of which lies half-built on an island in the middle of Manhattan's East River. The agency's troubles began last summer when it postponed a sale of $100 million in short-term notes because it felt that interest rates (then around 9%) were too high. By last September, when the U.D.C. finally sold $225 million in bonds, it had to pay a painful...
Unlike Scott-Stokes, John Nathan wrote his biography with the cooperation of Mishima's family. An associate professor of Japanese literature at Princeton, Nathan acted for a time as Mishima's translator; among other things, he impressed Mishima the muscle builder by being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Nathan's access to Mishima's family and friends yields fascinating gossip: details of the damp sickroom in which Mishima's dictatorial grandmother raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into...
...problem here, as in Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...
...Italy, known as "the golden section"-a way of dividing a line so that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. At first, Rockburne's Golden Section Paintings look homely: coarse cloth, stained creosote brown and traversed by lines in blue builder's chalk. But they are suffused by a remarkable tension and rigor, conferred by the intelligence with which she manipulates her schemes of proportion...