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...substantive virtues of Buchanan's proposal are less clear. If stagnant real wages are the problem, raising the cost of imports is a curious solution. As shoes and microwave ovens at Sears or Wal-Mart get pricier, the real wages of the average American worker go down, not up. When economists cite lower prices as benefits of free trade, protectionists sometimes reply that we should worry more about "workers" and less about "consumers." But, of course, workers are consumers...
...lasted five days, the maximum Castro could get on his U.S. visa. He joked that he will not return until Giuliani fixes the potholes in the road from the airport. But the briefness of the trip probably worked to Castro's benefit. He flew off with the press still curious and businessmen eager to head to Havana. As another show-biz adage has it: always leave them wanting more...
Here he's Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and, to his joy, a five-year-old adopted son Max. Curious about the boy's lineage, Lenny finds Max's natural mom, Linda (Mira Sorvino), a prostitute who also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked...
...memory, in part because of Nick at Night, and very occasionally because of a sound-track album. From Henry Mancini's jazzy music for Peter Gunn through LPs for such '60s hits as Batman and Mission Impossible, TV sound tracks have been largely curiosities. And some have been pretty curious: Who could possibly forget Meet the Brady Bunch, the 1972 record in which the TV step-siblings delivered their version of American...
...other borderline film, "I Am Curious (Yellow)" faced numerous hurdles in reaching the United States because of its frank portrayal of a female social activist's other activities. A film within a film structure sometimes gives the film a confused, patchwork quality and probably made it easier to dismiss as having no real merit. Undeniably, the film features sex, in various positions and locales, but not with the lascivious intent that the U.S. Court of Appeals, which labeled the film "obscene," would have us believe A certain openness marks the film, such that we see sex as just another part...