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...current biannual budget of $13 billion was only three months old when officials realized that they might face a $1 billion shortfall. "We kept looking at it to make sure we were not mistaken," said Budget Official Edgar Troyer. "You can't imagine how tense it was." To cope with the deficit, state officials cut all spending by 10%, imposed a temporary 50% surcharge on state income taxes (for a maximum rate of 7.5%), and raised sales taxes from...
THERE ARE NO weak segments in Working, though the transitions between them sometimes seem arbitrary and strained. We move from Calnek's insterstate trucker to Anne Hailey's telephone operator, predictably enough, via the former's casual phone call; the plaintive 30-years' teacher unable to cope with modernity (Jeannie Affelder) announces a supermarket checkers' number by nostalgically recalling a favorite student ("She works down at the Star Market now.") Then again, a few juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well...
...character. But even in small Oklahoma towns the world moves on, becomes more complicated; and before this modest, intelligent and entirely engaging movie concludes, young Tex has not only come to terms with Rowdy's loss, but been introduced to almost all the other perils a youngster must cope with these days: drugs, crime, sex, class distinctions, absent parents. The last of these is not the least of these. Tex and his sober, conventionally ambitious brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father is a rodeo performer...
Jordan must cope with both Israel and the P.L.O...
...sides of the picture as the camera focused on a table between them. Other solutions, like cutting from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally one shot, were so dislocating that they induced brief spells of mal de mer. The current way to cope, called panning and scanning, is a great deal more sophisticated and rather less noticeable, but the viewer still comes up short...