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Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood studios, the film stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, an obese, autocratic cop who frames his victims to ensure that the guilty do not escape punishment. Quinlan represents Welles's moral vision at its most complex and contradictory: on the one hand, he is a repulsive figure--brutal, racist, eats candy bars the way most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican...
...known in the darkest clubs...
Short range, the darkest cloud hanging over the CEA'S forecasts is money-supply policy. The Federal Reserve Board has lately been undershooting Burns' own target of a 5% to 7.5% annual rate of increase; the nation's money supply has grown at an annual rate of only 2.7% in the past three months. The CEA report asks: Will money-supply growth be appropriate? Its answer: Yes. But that yes is based on Burns' target, not on actual performance, and some economists at the CEA are afraid that the Federal Reserve will not produce on schedule...
Then Secretary of State Kissinger's warning to the U.N. last September may become prophetic: "The division of the planet between rich and poor could become as grim as the darkest days of the cold...
...more than a year ago, of limiting loan commitments and looking for "highest quality at the greatest return." For First Chicago and banks generally, such conservative lending policies will prevail for some time as a hangover from the recession. But Abboud feels the loan-loss picture is at its darkest now, and should brighten as business profits and personal income move up with the recovery...