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...HAPPEN: THE U.S. ECONOMY'S 4.8% growth rate in last year's fourth quarter was too fast to last. Still, though a spate of reports showing a marked early-1993 slowdown was no surprise, it was no cause for joy either. January numbers showing the sharpest plunge in new-home sales in 11 years might be shrugged off, since winter housing figures are notoriously unreliable. Slow February sales by major retail chains are a pattern worsened this year by storms. Drops in January factory orders, the late-February selling pace of new cars and an increase in first-time claims...
...storyteller turning pages in the book of love. The artful introspection of his previous record, 1991's The Soul Cages, has been replaced by a puckish objectivity; each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke of Spanish guitar here, a daub of blue trumpet there...
...mazurka that Gaudencio Beira, the blind accordion player at the local brothel, performs only upon these two occasions. Gaudencio's widowed sister, Adega, contributes her recollections and opinions on matters of life, death, magic and incidental gossip. "Some deaths brings sorrow but there are also those that bring great joy...." she notes at one point. "When I was a slip of a girl in Bouza da Fondo there was a hanged man so stone dead that the youngsters were able to swing to and fro from his feet...
...Armand tosses his head more sexily than ever while leaping in furious circles about the stage and turning as many as six times in his perfectly executed pirouettes. Together, the pair moves as if they were truly made for each other, their graceful embraces and lifts expressing the innocent joy of young love...
...Stare bleakly at your thesis outline one more time. Experience fleeting moment of joy at thought that all your friends in Social Studies have dropped their theses, switched to Gov, and are now downing pitchers at the Grill. Realize you already are Gov. Moan in despair...