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...year's most dramatic contribution to urban livability. A maritime museum, renovated warehouses, a new market hall, pushcarts, restaurants, stalls and stores that are not just cute boutiques, all evoke the atmosphere and bustle of the long-gone sailing-ship harbor. The architects are Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Beyer Blinder Belle, and Jan Hird Pokorny...
Once controls are removed, prices almost always explode. The highest annual inflation rate in the U.S. during the past 60 years (18.2%) occurred in 1946, following removal of World War II restrictions. After studying the 1971-74 Nixon program, Princeton Economists Alan S. Blinder and William J. Newton concluded that by early 1975 those controls actually increased inflation by almost 1% over what it would otherwise have been during those years. Reason: policymakers simultaneously removed most restraints on fiscal and monetary policy and thus overheated the economy...
...blinder-than-justice approach to their work also raises serious questions about the contents of the book. Once Woodward and Armstrong picked their target, how did they decide what to include in the book? Their unwillingness to separate the important from the titillating shows the trouble blind writing can cause. If Woodward and Armstrong spent two years studying this court, how could they not emerge with a few ideas on how it could be improved? But if they truly had no aim, then it is little wonder they ended up with 460-odd pages of whipped cream...
...kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine, is concerned about the small-town Midwest distributor "whose wife plays pinochle with all the local wives." On request, Guccione supplies free "blinder racks" to any dealer so that only the name of the magazine shows...
...written or filmed: it is also hugely entertaining. Viewing a tottering upper-class in pre-World War II France. Renoir involves us in an atmosphere where dated concepts of honor attained through individual merit (and in nationalist conquests) melt in the midst of equally outmoded and even blinder French aristocratic gamesmanship. Underneath the veneer, worker and German frustration seethes. The plotting and editing are whirlwind: if you can't catch everything first time around, you ski across the surface of each situation and get some idea of the terrain. The cast includes Marcel Dalio and the director himself...