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...some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed in gambler's jargon, are like the running response of some lost congregation. They are Altman's chorus...
Though established as a name, Nicholson is in the first flush of excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo...
...recruiting season ended at many colleges, more companies had visited more campuses and conducted more interviews than at any time in the past four years. The business interest seems paradoxical since the economy is threatened with that worst of all combinations, an inflationary recession. But many companies are still flush with the profits of boom-year 1973; they are going ahead with expansion plans and looking for new employees...
Still Testing. The energy crisis is indirectly intensifying the arms boom. Middle East nations, flush with fast-mounting oil revenues, are gobbling up military hardware to brandish against Israel and, occasionally, each other. Iran, which fought in a brief border clash with Iraq a few weeks ago, bought $2 billion in ships, planes and missiles from the U.S. last year. Within the past few months, it has ordered $900 million worth of Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and it is negotiating with McDonnell Douglas Corp. to buy 50 F-15 Eagle fighters, a model so new that...
...organ of enormous complexity. While a sophisticated electronic computer can store and recall some 100 billion "bits" of information, for example, the capacity of the brain seems infinite. The computer can make out a payroll, compute the trajectory of a spacecraft or figure the odds against drawing a straight flush far faster than any human. But the computer is, after all, a machine, capable of doing only what its human builders tell...