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...identity. Amy Irving, of the honeyed voice and witchcrafty allure, makes the role of an old-fashioned woman sexy and smart. And Streisand has fun playing a woman out of her time, a figure of both feminism and fun. In rabbinical drag she could pass for the comic David Brenner; in the tender scenes with Irving, she is the sassy Brooklyn girl coming to appreciate a Jewish Lithuanian princess...
...fact, "classy trash" may be too harsh a description. Most issues contain lively columns by writers like John Simon, Marie Brenner and "Adam Smith." The Rupert Murdoch stamp doesn't necessarily crush talent. The Murdoch Empire...
...American no longer has the image of a spender who throws away money," says Athens American Express General Manager George Efthyvoulidis. "He expects something in return." That lesson is apparent at least to Johannes Brenner, who owns a popular souvenir shop behind the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich. "In former years," he confesses, "Americans were the main customers for those porcelain monsters-the huge vases and ornate groups and centerpieces, laced figurines and gilded plates. Now we sell those to the Near East. Americans know too well what Rosenthal, Meissen and Nymphenburg should look like. We still sell...
Joblessness has a similar ripple effect. The greatest source of stress is not the actual loss of the job but rather the gradual domestic and psychological changes it imposes. These can be devastating, says Sociologist M. Harvey Brenner, professor of health services administration at Johns Hopkins. Brenner has found that over a period of about 25 years beginning in the late 1940s, for each 1% increase in the national unemployment rate, there were 1.9% more U.S. deaths from heart disease and cirrhosis, 4.1% more suicides, and an upturn in the number of first-time admissions to state mental health facilities...