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… Looks At the 80’s At the start of a new decade it has become traditional for assorted “prophets” to emerge from the … again by Administration spokesmen, and the alternative expedient of adopting price-wage controls was vehemently … suggest. In his Wall Street Journal column of Nov. 26, 1979, “The Worst Is Yet to Come,” Kristol argues that …
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… ironies of honesty, which shapes not only the performer-audience relationship but the experience of any couple growing … tension lies in uneasy revelations gained through taxing commitments. Kevin Moffett’s “Only Son” is a darkly funny … In our feature essay, “Little Seed,” Wei Tchou assembles a complicated family portrait within the frame of an …
… to Queen Anne and the Georges. With magic suddenness and completeness it rose at the trumpet call of the neo-classic … age; with that age it decayed, and with that age it died, for Bath today, despite its motor-thronged streets and … a good third or more of the book is quotation. There is also much excerpting from later writers. (Miss Sitwell …
Poetry
… will bear in the red air. They don’t. Before the snail dies (and it dies in “One Mississippi”) the peaches liquefy, the grapes, … We paint it anyway, going slow to compensate for our ridiculous gloves, stiff necks, the dim …
Fiction
… the First United Episcopal Methodist Church and has just become president of the Junior League. She can solve any … his bare feet and thinks about how to get out of this. He points to Nathan with dead seriousness. “ He lost it.” … pop the latch.” “Yeah,” Carlee says, “I think my A/C just died.” Carl lifts the hood and waves his hands to clear the …
… polite little titters, that Gilbert couldn’t tell were false. After dinner Cookie left them at the table and went to … was that he never flushed the toilet. “It’s not right,” she complained to her mother, her voice shaking. “You know it’s … addressing only her mother. “Everybody suffers. Everybody dies. Very sad. Very tragic. A tragedy.” “I bet you read …