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...easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes and especially grown crops, could stretch declining natural gas supplies and help the U.S. bridge the 50-year period before it can achieve what he thinks possible: a completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas?and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners...
...together. Even though the film is relentlessly busy - there seems to be a physical gag in every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along the lines of a massive Laurel and Hardy pie fight, somehow comes out both mirthless and meanspirited...
WHAT WOODY ALLEN brought to the movie, Renata Adler to the novel and Valerie Harper to the sit-com, playwright John Guare has now brought to the stage--that many-headed artistic monster, the Manhattan neurosis. "Bosoms and Neglect," Guare's newest play, is about therapy. It's about loneliness and "5 a.m. friends." It's about the fulminations of intelligent but broken people who are oppressed by the four walls of their Fifth Avenue apartments. Though a bit tired, these themes can usually withstand a warming over, and Guare's is articulate and wry. The trouble comes when...
Because the Foreign Relations Com mittee is regarded as more pro-SALT than the full Senate, this razor-thin margin was seen as evidence of the rough time SALT II still faces. Indeed, some analysts feel that the pact's toughest and most in transigent opponents have been holding their fire, waiting for the proceedings to move to the Senate floor, probably around Thanksgiving...
That apparently ended the legal troubles that had dogged Cornfeld for seven years since the fall of I.O.S., which he started in the 1950s and built into the world's largest offshore investment com bine. At its peak in the late 1960s, I.O.S. managed assets totaling more than $2 billion in mutual funds alone; armies of I.O.S. "reps" rang doorbells everywhere to persuade people to put their savings into one or another of I.O.S.'s 130 in vestment outlets. Cornfeld, a onetime social worker, proclaimed that "everyone can be a millionaire." As if to prove it, he lived...