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...Discreet Lawyer...
...have served in recent years as Attorney General have brought different approaches to the job: flamboyant activist (Bobby Kennedy), judicial academic (Edward Levi, chosen by Ford), slick wheeler-dealer (Nixon's-and Watergate's-John Mitchell). William French Smith, 64, is, above all, a discreet and reticent corporate lawyer, dedicated to serving his once and present client, Ronald Reagan. This conservatism, in both philosophy and style, has been the hallmark of Smith's tenure at the Justice Department...
...teller and count out just under $10,000 from overstuffed shopping bags for deposit. The major operators, who find this too cumbersome, have initiated a reverse airlift, sometimes using the same planes that fly drugs into Florida to take suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports. Says one former smuggler: "I was paying up to 2% of my deposits to bank...
Forman, who inherited this project after Robert Altman was removed by Producer Dino De Laurentiis, is an actor's director. In Ragtime he has .elicited many fine performances: from Olson and Steenburgen, models of rectitude and discreet strength; from Rollins, who carries the film with a heroic charm that sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun...
...Entertainment Channel, the RCA/Rockefeller Center network, will arrive fourth, after CBS-C. When launched in early 1982, it will charge for its programming (between $8 and $10 a month) and also carry discreet institutional advertising, a combination that some viewers may nonetheless find excessive. Forty percent of its selection will come from the BBC; the rest will consist largely of children's shows, foreign films and Broadway and off-Broadway plays. The Entertainment Channel will have enough middlebrow programs, claim its executives, to make it something broader than the other cultural cables. But those services will probably...