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From the first scene the split between the two is clear. Defending his childhood predilection for make-believe, good-boy Austin (Francois de la Giroday) claims. "I enjoy my imagination "Lee (John Bottoms), recalling his own boyhood love of squashing desert snakes and disgusted by his brother's lack of macho, snorts. "Looks like you're still enjoying...
...brother's success, of his home and car and wife and children, of his solid bourgeois existence. Sneeringly, but also wistfully. Lee refers to "houses like they have in magazines. You know, with blondes moving in and out of rooms. "Lee's ambivalence toward security and society crystallizes when Austin invites a movie producer. Saul Kimmer (Richard Grusin), to the house to talk business. Scoffing openly at Kimmer's lifestyle. Lee the dirty, ill-spoken, scowling failure babbles with gleeful sarcasm about his imaginary residence in Palm Springs, his love of gold, his familiarity with Hollywood's Bob Hope Drive...
Watson won with a score of 539.99, comfortably ahead of second-place Brian Bungam of Austin, Tex., who had a score of 524.91. Watson also finished third in the one-meter springboard event and third overall, his finish in the top eight qualified him for the U.S. National Team...
...aesthetically." Roberts' hopeful and boosterism sounds almost quaint: it has been at least a dozen years since World's Fairs -grand, unself-conscious celebrations of progress and technology - were right in step with the Zeitgeist. But Knoxville, a latecomer to urbanity, is excited anyway. Even John Austin, ambivalent about the enterprise, appreciates the hoopla. Says he: "We'd still be a backwater town on the banks of the Tennessee River without the fair." -By Kurt Andersen...
Banking experts believe that Girard's system of fees is a prototype that may be widely copied. Surveys show, however, that a majority of small- and medium-sized banks are still skittish about sweeping new charges that might alienate customers. A study by Sheshunoff & Co., an Austin consulting firm, indicated that only 48% of U.S. banks have adopted maintenance charges for credit cards. More than 80% of the banks impose no fees on small savings accounts, and 75% offer free checking to senior citizens. Smaller banks are still looking for little ways to be generous. The Princeton Bank...