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This is partly a matter of image. Goodman has become our designated Everyman, a Ralph Kramden for the '90s but without the splenetic splutter of Jackie Gleason's immortal creation. An intelligence, a sensitivity he can't quite articulate, just possibly a slight sadness, lurk behind Goodman's eyes, and they ground everything he does in reality. Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect. It is hard to insert their screen personas into the kind of normal, middle- class lives they are supposed to inhabit here. They require highly...
...solution to our problem; government is the problem," he appealed to his countrymen's primordial suspicion of authority. When he talked of God's plan for American freedom, he revived the nation's self-image as uniquely blessed. When he inveighed against tax rates, he played on Everyman's resentment against the burdens of the commonweal. Last week Reagan followed what he called the "great tradition of warnings in presidential farewells" by protesting the way history is taught these days. He urged renewed emphasis on American uniqueness to achieve an "informed patriotism...
Davidson also manages to coordinate his unwieldy cast; the actors never bump into each other because they exit awkwardly or stand in the wrong place. And as they strut and fret their four hours upon the stage, the players really could be acting our Everyman before a medieval audience...
...five sweet years the individual retirement account was Everyman's tax shelter, providing a tax-deductible savings plan enjoyed by millions of Americans. But as the April 15 income-tax deadline approaches, that once sturdy shelter is leaking badly. Because of tax reform, high-income IRA holders can no longer claim deductions on contributions to their accounts. Many taxpayers, though, are not despairing; they are switching to another tax- deferred investment vehicle that has become an attractive alternative to the IRA. Its cryptic name: the 401(k). Says Christine Okenica, benefits coordinator at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae...
...often, though, the two terms are not so easily distinguished. Many a criminal trial, after all, revolves around precisely that gray area where the two begin to blur. Was Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact an aberration? Often, besides, eccentrics may simply be weirdos in possession of a VIP pass, people * rich enough or powerful enough to live above convention, amoral as Greek gods. Elvis Presley could afford to pump bullets into silhouettes of humans and never count the cost. Lesser mortals, however, must find another kind...