Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the saying goes, you can't paint the painting without the paint. Director Beck has himself a little whale of a cast, fully equal to the show and with voice enough to fill the theatre and then some. Not a song gets roughed up more than momentarily. And the bulk of them, emphatically "I'll Never Be Jealous Again," "Small Talk," "Hernando's Hideaway" and "Seven and a Half Cents...
...represents a deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints Foxy and Angela full-length and achieves an equal effect in far fewer brush strokes with Marcia and Janet, two of the husband swappers. The trouble is that with some minor differences, he seems to have used the same woman as model for them all-a well-meaning, even-temped, sexually adept American frau with not a bitch...
...Since 1954, FNMA has required lenders who sell it loans to buy common stock as a condition of each transaction. Under current rules, lenders must buy stock (at book value of $130 per share) equal to 1% of the loans they sell. Fannie Mae's is the only stock of a Government corporation traded on the private market...
...difference between this corporation and others is that its "stock-holders" all live in one geographic area. And, above all, it is controlled one-man, one-vote by the neighborhood. Anyone in the neighborhood can become a member simply by signing up--and has voting power equal to anyone else...
...close, Hope's script had him intone the news that "rioting and indifference" are equal sins; he was also made to congratulate the industry on coming to grips with contemporary problems' and abandoning the old cliches. In doing so, he reminded audiences that, as the old bromides go, there are always new ones to take their place. The evening offered many reminders that this was the end of the Academy Awards' fourth decade. Having reached supposedly mature middle age, the Academy might do itself and everyone else a favor by abandoning its annual orgy of puffery...