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...punch line. The lovers repose in bed, a turnstile fan lazing above them, Venetian blinds notching shadows on their backs, and outside their window looms the detective. For a moment the low growl of Marty's backyard incinerator can be heard, and then the screen whitens in an atomic flash, as if the lovers had been cremated. It is the flash of the detective's camera...
...Conference championship game, strafing Pittsburgh 45-28, Marino's final interview was with former Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw near midfield of the Orange Bowl at dusk. Passing quarterbacks passing in the twilight: a fairly irresistible image. Even when Marino's gums are not packed with tobacco, there is a flash of boy Bradshaw. "Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride he's on," murmured Bradshaw, whose...
Among economic issues, the flash point of debate in 1984 was the federal budget deficit, which is expected to reach $200 billion this year. The deficit depressed Wall Street, alarmed businessmen and created a civil war among President Reagan's advisers. Treasury Secretary Regan argued that strong growth and spending cuts would take care of the budget gap, but Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, publicly maintained that a tax hike was needed. Said Feldstein, who resigned in July to return to teaching at Harvard: "The longer the deficits are allowed to persist, the greater...
...economy sent out encouraging signals of its own last week. The Commerce Department estimated that the gross national product grew 2.8% during the fourth quarter. That so-called flash figure exceeded expectations that growth would be in the 1.5%-to-2.5% range. At the same time, Commerce underscored the sharpness of the third-quarter slowdown by adjusting its estimate of that period's G.N.P. gain from 1.9% to 1.6%. The Government also reported that the November consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.7%, the smallest increase since June. Meanwhile, Americans' personal income rose a vigorous...
...ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast (Keir Dullea, HAL 9000, the monolith) to help provide the inspirational capper. Flash: There is intelligent life in outer space. More, anyway, than in this amiable footnote of a movie...