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Although Penn rates strong consideration when discussing the national championship, the Crimson-Tiger rivalry has more bite...
...Yugoslavian (Zagreb) Zdenko Gasparovic, fills the screen for 15 minutes with images drawn from the music of composer Erik Satie. Beginning with a bevy of streetwalkers, the film progresses to a vibrantly red evocation of early 19th century Paris, a world seamier even than Toulouse-Lautrec's. Here prostitutes bite men's heads off, delicately remove their clothing, and loll sexily on plush pillows...
...rest." Novelist Carpenter knows better; the comedians' implicit longing for normality and humanity proves that. But Carpenter also knows that the simulacrum of love with which his comics are re warded is more than most people, leading their ad hoc, late 20th century lives, ever get. There is bite here, but no bitterness. The overall, and lasting, effect makes A Couple of Comedians an unusually literate and oddly touching novel about performers going through the sound stages of life. - Richard Schickel
...vested interest in getting an influence in Iran. The prize in political, economic and military terms would be enormous. It would, place them in a position of being able to turn off the oil tap for Western consumers almost at will when the oil shortage starts to really bite later in the 1980s." It would also put them in a position of having immediate access to the gulf's rich petroleum reserves when, in the next few years, the U.S.S.R.'s domestic output of oil is expected to start falling short of its internal needs...
...cent, and that's the starting line. Conventional remedies by themselves are not likely to be cost-effective. My own judgment is that we will have to experiment more aggressively with "income policies" short of full-fledged wage and price controls but with a good deal more bite than the November 1978 guidelines. It won't be easy--to the contrary, it's bound to involve inefficiency in equity and trouble. But the other options are likely to be worse: either a deep and persistent recession with unemployment at 9-10 per cent for two or three years...