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...Author John Sayles does not just ask that disbelief be willingly suspended; he wants it lynched. He offers up a woebegone five-man softball team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...
Still, some upturn is better than no upturn: housing is at least ceasing to be a drag on the national economy. The budding upturn will probably reinforce President Ford's determination to veto this week an "emergency" housing bill passed by Congress two weeks ago. The bill was designed to encourage the building of 400,000 new houses mainly by providing mortgage subsidies to middle-income home buyers. But it probably would have no effect until well after the slump was ended...
...tariff boost if OPEC does in fact raise prices. Morton's comment was repudiated immediately by Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb and then by President Ford. Nonetheless, Morton has a serious point: the tariff boost may not be the best way to reduce imports, it acts as a drag on essential as well as nonessential sectors of the economy...
...does not. They are aware that he has been set up, that the French and American police forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...
...these confessions, Sammy Williams' is the most affecting; he plays a boy who was first called "my son" by his father after the old man caught his act as a drag queen. As anyone who saw Follies could guess, a Michael Ben nett dance takes the parade-ground drill of the Radio City Rockettes and raises it to a Platonic ideal. As a dancer-cumactress, Donna McKechnie is an un crowned star. But just to indicate the medals that the entire cast has earned, they have collectively appeared in 88 different productions, in which they have given a total...