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...think "So what?" But the government has this habit of going to work every day, and things are happening. Frank Sargent, DuKakis' liberal Republican predecessor, left the incoming administration saddled with a deficit of roughly $760 million in a budget of $3.3 billion. The state of Massachusetts is in almost as bad a situation as New York City--worse in terms of options for the future--so if there were ever an opportunity and a ready-made rationale for change, you would think this was it. Many expected just that, Dukakis, who distinguished himself as a somewhat cool and analytical...
...suggests Tarden, the protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. If Tarden is indeed a creature from some other writer's galaxy, that author is manifestly Dostoyevsky. For like his predecessor, Kosinski explores the classic antinomies of rationality-and of experience that defeats reason and mocks humanity...
French Connection if, which is about to leave the Sack 57 any minute, has very little in common with its predecessor. The original French Connection was made by that slickest of American directors, William Friedkin, and it was seductive stuff. It helped demonstrate, like Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, that Charles Bronson--like punch-'em-up movies, seemingly innocent if a bit violent, could be fascist. All they needed was a good director, and it was enough to scare you silly--not what happened on screen, but the way you were responding. These pictures didn't necessarily bring...
...three jet engines mounted at its tail, the plane carried 116 passengers and a crew of eight. Its pilot, Captain John W. Kleven, 54, only minutes earlier had been advised by the tower of the complaint about wind shear made by Eastern 902's pilot. Unlike his fortunate predecessor, however, Kleven was unable to "save...
...songs according to title and author. It is not necessary to know how to read music to use Parsons' book. The key to the system is that almost all themes can be differentiated by the relationship of the notes to each other-whether a note repeats (R) its predecessor, or goes up (U), or down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march...