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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The first episode, Metzengerstein, is something of a family affair: Jane Fonda, under the direction of her husband Vadim, dashes about the medieval countryside in none too maidenly pursuit of her brother Peter, who looks lost with out his Harley-Davidson. Peter and Jane play the sole descendants of two...
Plea for Pity. Some of the most disputed figures are those on the growth of the nation's money supply. Washington's fundamental strategy for halting inflation is keyed to keeping that growth down. Federal Reserve statistics computed in the traditional manner show that the money supply, which...
Every business student learns in one of his first classes that shipping by water is the cheapest but also the slowest way to move goods. Only those who go on to become freight managers discover that the longest delays nowadays do not occur at sea. Dock congestion around the world...
Holding the Line. In appealing for na tional support to "win the battle of the franc," Giscard cautiously sought to avoid stirring anew the industrial strife that upset the government's economic plans during the student riots of 1968. In fact, the burden assigned to ordinary Frenchmen was relatively...
William Wilson, the second episode, comes as something of a relief; almost anything would. Louis Malle (The Thief of Paris) works some interesting cinematic variations on Poe's classic Doppelganger story, but Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot seem, to put it gently, out of place. The kinetic opening, with...