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Burns indicated that the Fed's easing will be small and gradual. The board, he pledged, will not "stand idly by and watch the current adjustment degenerate into a recession." But he added, in a typical Burns hedge: "Neither do we intend to let excess demand for goods and services burst out anew...
...Where railways have no water-borne competition they have charged shippers five times as much, computed on a cents per ton-mile basis, as they charged in areas where they had to compete. That sort of practice, the report argues, has caused consumers to pay an incalculable amount in excess charges and has led to severe distortions in the economy. In addition, carriers charge more per pound for high-value, mostly finished items than for bulk cargo. The pricing structure tends to make it more economical for manufacturers to locate their plants close to their markets instead of near their...
...carried to excess, pro-Israel passions might also be self-defeating. Every American President since Truman has materially supported Israel's sovereignty. Even Nixon, despite his scant debt to Jewish voters, despite lobbying by the oil industry, which wants good U.S. relations with the Arabs, despite his talk about "evenhandedness," has not really turned the Government to a new course. For this, he has good reasons and widespread support; opinion polls have consistently shown strong backing for Israel. Says Dr. William Wexler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and one of the leaders whom...
...recurrent dramatic problem in Zabriskie Point prevents it from working harmoniously for long stretches: good ideas are played to excess and then taken to the point of self-parody. The opening off-campus meeting between Kathleen Cleaver and Black militants with potential white revolutionaries starts out well with acceptable archetypal ideology tossed around. The dialogue is more theoretical than these discussions usually get (radical meetings tend to bog down in debates on procedure, elections, factional conflicts), but Antonioni cannot be blamed for telescoping exposition to raise some basic questions; it's the sort of things movies do best...
...scenes, Antonioni recognizes that destruction of form within a Panavision screen can be used thematically, for example to warn against America's depersonalized computer jungles. In this he becomes the thinking man's Frank Tashlin ( Bachelor Flat, The Girl Can't Help It ), who also revels in the natural excess of the wide screen and applies it to similar subjects: mechanical courtship, distortion of props, vistas of commercialized cityscapes. Antonioni's photographic approach to American life-styles goes a long way toward explaining why the French like Jerry Lewis...