Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Levene had graced the British stage for 53 years, he would long since have been knighted. He is a pluperfect master of the groan, the pause, the gravelly riposte, and nobody, but nobody, has his comic timing...
...story, an achievement all the more remarkable because the author has set her novel specifically, almost immovable, in time and place. The Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty...
...push, particularly in Terry Rex. He is on firmer turf in Terry Won't Talk, where the players' stylized panache smoothly implies a production of a production--actors playing actors. Madden's effect is boosted here by the equally stylized sets, always smaller than the stage, parading their artificiality, masterfully created by Andrew Jackness. The Terry of Terry Won't Talk is more metaphsyical than physical, but master mime Mark Linn-Baker brings him to life, sometimes with a tilt of his head, sometimes with a peculiarly appropriate shuffle of a walk. Richard Grustin is just as effective as Terry...
...theory that heavy borrowing has fueled inflationary buying. The Fed immediately issued tough guidelines. Last week banks, department stores and other lenders began setting up rules to stay within the guidelines. Samples from Manhattan's Citibank, the second largest bank in the U.S.: no new Visa or Master Card credit cards; cash advances on existing cards to be limited to $300, vs. a previous maximum of $10,000; minimum monthly payment on bills charged on cards now outstanding raised to $15, from $5. All that will make it more difficult for consumers to borrow to meet bills that they...
Martin Luther was the lightning of the Protestant Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master often conveyed with rhetoric. Calvin's lifelong opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion, as he boasts in this vigorous biographical novel, grew to be as long as ''the Old Testament plus a good part...