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...this soberly paced film opens, a father and mother (Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore) are treading softly around their son Conrad (Timothy Hutton), full of false cheer and barely suppressed anxiety. He is excessively solicitous. She is too brisk. The boy is trying to take up the normal life that was broken off by the death of his brother in a boating accident for which he feels responsible, and by his subsequent stay in a mental hospital. School, the swimming team, girls-he would like to return to them all with a full heart. But he can only mime...
Acting against the best counsel of Chuck Berry - "Want me to marry, get a home/ Settle down, write a book/ Too much monkey business!" - publishers have been doing a brisk trade in books about rock. Two recent ones - George Harrison's I Me Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs...
...strong month for merchants, a number of the bigger retailers managed to ring up good sales on selected items. Unusually hot summer weather had Sears, Roebuck and Co. customers in Chicago snapping up air conditioners and fans. At Macy's in New York City last week, business was brisk in men's clothing and home electronics...
Later in the decade, firms may be bidding against each other to get good workers. The number of jobs in the 1980s is expected to grow only two-thirds as fast as in the 1970s. But because of the end of the brisk population growth of the baby-boom era, the numbers of new workers entering the labor force will increase very slowly. Though there are now an estimated 2.3 million more workers than jobs in the economy, projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that by 1990, the gap could narrow to only 300,000 more workers than...
...Community's initiative contrasted with the almost surreal serenity of the summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian...