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Died. Peter Finch, 60, who created crystalline portraits of middle-aged men on the edge of despair in such films as Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Pumpkin Eater and Network; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in England, Finch worked in Australia, where Sir Laurence Olivier spotted him acting in a lunchtime show at a glass factory. Finch was soon playing Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His mastery was evident in whatever parts he played, from Walt Disney roles to the sensitive homosexual in Sunday. Finch savored his life both off and on camera. "One hopes that...
...usher said and up we climbed, to the very top. The players on the field resembled flyspecks; stratospheric currents chilled us to the bone. Drunk sports fans screamed unintelligible epithets in our ears and yes, the UCLA band was settling down directly in front of us. The despair creeping into my facial expression was painfully obvious, reflected in the tubas that lined the row before us. The game itself was a complete mismatch, Alabama winning by a score...
...past, particularly during the pre-World War II depression. France is again suffering a severe economic crisis; after a decade of industrial boom, the average Frenchman is faced with bewildering jumps in both inflation and unemployment. The "little guy" has become fed up, and Chirac is capitalizing on this despair...
...farm on the outskirts of Geneva, where for a little while they seem to have found a viable alternative to the bourgeois life they disdain. Each character is as individual as the ideology he or she has adopted, ranging from Max, a former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people and who is preoccupied with the fate of the whale, to Madeleine, an efficient secretary who espouses tantrism and returns constantly to the value of holding back one's semen so the lotus will explode in one's head...
After a year of shifting moods −from euphoria to uncertainty and for a time despair−the stock market seems to have come full circle. As 1976 draws to an end, traders are once more looking ahead with rising confidence, buoyed by a growing conviction that President-elect Jimmy Carter can put zip into the lagging economy. Before the election, Wall Street nervously regarded the Democratic candidate as a big-spending populist, but it has been won over in recent weeks by Carter's appointment of political moderates to top Administration posts. Says Reynolds Securities, Inc. Vice President...