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...along the proposed route of Atlanta's rapid transit system and near the mammoth Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. A Dallas real estate group recently sold for $45,000 a parcel of virgin land that it had bought only two months earlier for a mere $6,000. To a lesser extent, inflation also benefits the typical owner of a mortgaged home. Since the value of the dollars used to repay the debt is lessening, the mortgage is, in effect, becoming cheaper...
Voters who admire both men are in a quandary. Says J. Bill Becker, president of the state AFL-CIO: "At least we won't be choosing between the lesser of two evils, but rather choosing the better of the best...
...musicians are fine, and some of the songs--a beautiful first-act cotillon about how Youth's the Season made for Joys, for instance--come through beautifully. They all help the ironic stylization virtually imposed on director Gene Lesser by the play's ironic, stylized speech--"Money, Wife," Mr. Peachum the fence explains, "is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take...
...because Lesser doesn't let the irony falter even for a minute--"I have a fixt Confidence, Gentlemen, in you all," Macheath explains, taking out his revolver--the love some of his numerous wives persist in feeling for him, even though they know that in a depraved world love is a sad mistake, can serve as the standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband...
Lynn Chang, Stephen Hammer, Richard Yoder, and Yo-Yo Ma were the the soloists in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat. Lynn Chang glowed in the limelight, playing the violin with just the right amount of youthful schmaltz, giving the entire piece energy and impulse. In their lesser roles, Richard Yoder's bassoon, Stephen Hammer's oboe, and Yo-Yo Ma's cello blended beautifully...