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World War II made Loesser a complete songwriter. Eager to contribute an anthem to the infantry, he wrote Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, and this time the dummy tune became the published song -- and a big hit. When he returned to movies, writing pile-driving boogie-woogie (Rumble Rumble Rumble) and patter songs (Can't Stop Talking) for hyperactive Betty Hutton, he had the credit he wanted: songs by Frank Loesser...
...have nearly tripled in 30 years. Quayle also trumpeted a 1989 Forbes magazine estimate that the annual cost to the nation of all litigation and related insurance is more than $80 billion. As Walter Olson, the author of The Litigation Explosion, argues, "A litigator can come around, dump a pile of papers on your front lawn and you can go literally broke trying to respond...
...small but anxious group of economists, however, believes the latest Fed tactic is too little, too late. They say the economy is now structurally damaged and incapable of bouncing back anytime soon. Hanging ominously over every sector -- individuals, business and government -- is a crippling pile of debt that amounts to $10 trillion, double the size of the entire U.S. economy. Consumers, far and away the most powerful stimuli in the economy, seem determined to slash spending and pay off loans. The government said last week that consumer installment debt fell 3% in June, the sixth drop in seven months...
...opportunity to pull themselves up as well." Translation: liberal activists view Thomas' skepticism toward affirmative action as a fatal flaw. Within hours, the AFL- CIO's executive board joined the opposition, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is now virtually certain to fight Thomas too. The latest pile- on by Thomas' adversaries poses an obstacle to Senate confirmation, which until last week had seemed a good bet. Most Senators will now suspend judgment until the Judiciary Committee quizzes the nominee next month...
...Marcel Proust, My Favorite Summer 1956. But dazzled as I was by his emotionally evocative sentences ("I met up with Billy at the St. Moritz coffee shop for a quick cup of coffee"), I confess that I yielded to temptation. Instead of scrupulously working my way through a pile of new books as oversized as Cecil Fielder's strike zone, I frittered away my critical faculties watching real- life baseball on TV, even slighting sleep for the red-eye ESPN night games from the Coast. Eventually I found -- in extra innings, it is true -- seven baseball books that survived...