Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catch-22. This time Heller's hero is Bruce Gold, a Jewish writer from Manhattan's Upper West Side, who hopes to get away from his Portnoy-esque family to be a "high Government official," even though to do so he may have to get a "better" wife. "Belle would be O.K. for Labor or Agriculture," someone advises Gold, "but not for Secretary of State or Defense." And Gold's aspiration is to follow in the footsteps of Henry Kissinger, even though Gold considers him "an odious shlump" and a "shallow, socialite warmonger." Says Heller innocently...
...more rights can be gained for the oppressed through moral education than by agitation and revolution. Said he: "Whatever the miseries or sufferings that afflict man, it is not through violence, the interplay of power, and political systems, but through the truth concerning man, that he journeys toward a better future...
DIED. John Simon Ritchie, 21, English punk-rock musician better known as Sid Vicious of the notorious, now disbanded Sex Pistols group; of a heroin overdose, one day after being released on bail from prison, where he was awaiting trial for the October murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, 20; in Manhattan...
...rule. In the conflict, both Gasolino and a con named Juleson (John Heard) die as Chilly struggles to hang on. Juleson's characterization is interesting: he is a quiet, fairly bright middle-class wife killer who doesn't fit in the underclass prison society. One of the better scenes takes place in a group therapy session, in which the other cons (most of them actually inmates at the Rockview State Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, where the film was shot) goad Juleson into talking about his wife...
...fact, for many Americans, today's high rates have become a bonanza. The reason: since June, banks have been offering money market certificates. These are six-month time deposits that pay interest equal to-or when sold by a savings and loan, a quarter-point better than -what the Government has to offer to sell its six-month Treasury bills. And while regular bank certificates of deposit normally cannot be had for under $100,000, MMCs sell for as little as $10,000; many people have switched their savings to them...