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...corny romantic comedy, part whoop-it-up action exploitation flick, and high-brow, somewhat pretentious anti-war statement (circa Vietnam) and quickie-metaphysical study of Paranoia, Art, and the old Illusion/Reality enigma. The Stunt Man's got it all, even those big, capitalized questions of Significance, which flutter like damp fortune-cookie slogans blowing around in the whirl wind of the movie's frenetic action. There is too much...
...book-publishing party for himself at a Manhattan restaurant. And he even attended President Carter's Inauguration. Finally, after a last interview in hiding, with ABC's Barbara Walters, Hoffman, 44, gave up last week. Said he, outside the state court building in Manhattan: "It's damp underground. I wouldn't recommend the life of a fugitive to anyone...
...attempt to damp down such prices, Dr. Joe has adopted a policy of lowering Argentina's once fearsome tariff walls to allow cheaper foreign goods to flow into the country. Import duties have averaged over 45%, but the goal is to reduce them to 15% by 1984. The Argentine balance of payments will remain in the red this year, despite the export of grain to the Soviet Union following the embargo of U.S. sales to that country in January in retaliation for the Afghanistan invasion. The Soviets will buy $800 million worth of grain and meat from Argentina this...
...eight or more teams) would have to compensate the player's old team with someone from its own 40-man roster (up to 18 players could be protected). But few clubs would risk signing any free agent but a superstar under that condition. The proposal is designed to damp the salary explosion that has occurred since the reserve clause, which bound players to their original teams, was overturned by an arbitrator in 1975. Today even middling players are being given $300,000 contracts. Unable to restrain themselves, the owners demanded statutory relief. Said Houston Astros Owner John McMullen...
...Vance has always been a clean-desk man, so it did not take him long to prepare to leave Washington. That gave him plenty of time on his last day to say goodbye to staffers. Some came out of his mahogany-paneled office with damp eyes. Vance's own voice grew husky...