Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were likely to intensify as a result of Reagan's combination of large tax cuts and hefty boosts in defense spending. The most prominent of these skeptics are a pair of bad news bears: Henry Kaufman, 53, chief economist for the investment banking house of Salomon Bros., and Albert M. Wojnilower (pronounced Wodge-nee-lauer), 51, who holds the same post at the rival First Boston. They are two of the most respected oracles in the financial community; their ability to analyze and forecast money market trends with unusual accuracy has attracted legions of loyal followers...
What began as a defiant form of anti-shtik has become a dominant mode in the funny-peculiar '80s. It is saturating the big screen with the films of Albert Brooks (the mime), Steve Martin (funny balloon animals), Murray Langston (the paper-bagged Unknown Comic), Martin Mull (the Fernwood 2-Night talk-show host), Andy Kaufman (heterosexual wrestling), Lily Tomlin (Wayne Newton) and the now-ready-for-prime-time cutups of NBC's Saturday Night Live. It took over TV years ago-in 1975, when S.N.L. hit the air and became a focal point for the new comedy...
...doesn't hurt to make people laugh," says Albert Brooks of Kaufman. "There should be laughter. Otherwise it's some other art form." If Kaufman functions as a one-man Weather Underground, Brooks is a more accessible, ultimately more subversive radical professor of post-funny comedy. Says Brooks, who was born Albert Einstein, son of the dialect comedian Parkyakarkus: "Life is so bizarre anyway, the slightest twist can make it really funny." Brooks' twist is so slight, so deft, that many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star...
...supporting cast works with the same attention to comic detail that enlivened Epstein's baroque production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last year. William McGlinn's mincing music teacher. Thomas Derrah's stuttering judge, Chris Clemenson's lumbering clerk and Albert Duclos' staggering, alcoholic gardener together cover the entire spectrum of sycophancy...
Last week's money markets reflected, in part, a growing uneasiness in some sectors of the financial community over whether the Reagan Administration is on the right track toward lowering inflation. The leaders of this group of skeptics are Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Salomon Bros., and Albert M. Wojnilower, chief economist of the First Boston Inc. Both men are among Wall Street's most respected figures, and both are critics of the Reagan Administration's version of supply-side economics. Kaufman believes that increased military spending, without more cuts in social spending, and a large...