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Directed by Harold Becker...
Brickman is fortunate to have the talented Arkin and his cohorts in this movie. Austin Pendleton as the playful, Machiavellian Becker, and Fred Gwynne '51 as an oafish Pentagon general are particularly effective in their roles, and Madeleine Kahn, though not blessed with a very demanding part, provides some of the funnier moments at the Center. They are all able to keep their jokes alive, and Arkin's evolution from minuscule plankton to neurotic 20th-century man should be recorded as one of the funnier scenes in contemporary movie-making. But one scene doesn't make a whole movie...
...that the DOE'S pricing regulations are contradictory, confusing and capricious, the profit-rich energy companies are unlikely to attract much sympathy. Amoco's earnings jumped 70% in the last quarter of 1979 and 40% over the full year. Said Energy Securities Analyst David Snow of A.G. Becker in New York: "The Government is hitting the oil companies over the head at a time when it knows they are well able...
...Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press, 1973). Anxiety over death, not over sex, Anthropologist Becker decided, is the prime trouble of mankind. An unconventionally religious book that won a Pulitzer Prize shortly after the author died of cancer...
...pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that had been painted pink. But after 20 minutes, the hostility grew, and after three hours some of the men started to tear the paint off the walls. Conclusion: pink may be best for inmates whose...