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...York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Piñerua had the services of Clifton White, a former Barry Goldwater aide, and Joseph Napolitan, author of The Election Game and How to Win It, who ran the successful 1973 campaign of outgoing President Carlos Andr...
...problems, as he explains to a weighty fellow whom he takes to be a psychiatrist but who is in fact an insurance agent. He is troubled by an odd sort of sexual dislocation: when he is making love to his wife (a porky and bubbleheaded blonde played delightfully by Andréa Ferréol), he also seems to be sitting in a chair and watching the heavings. Worse, as the illness progresses, the chair he watches, from recedes farther and farther from the action...
Strolling from his art-filled office through a bulletproof door to a balcony overlooking an immense trading room, Cairo-born André Levy pauses to deny a bit of gossip circulating among his fellow money dealers in Lausanne, Switzerland. He insists that it is just not true that his firm - somewhat whimsically named Tradition S. A. - exchanges half a billion dollars for stronger currencies each day. The actual figure, he states with aplomb, is "more than a billion dollars...
Surprisingly, many of the money traders agree, though they are making profits out of the irrationality, which they blame on their clients. Asks André Scaillet, chief money trader in Europe for First National Bank of Chicago: "Can you tell me if it's logical to have a 7½% [downward] movement of the dollar against the Swiss franc in a single day? It's out of this world!" Money traders worry quite as much as any finance minister about what the drop in the world's central trading currency is doing to the global structure...
Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...