Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest heat came from the Senators' eagerness to heap praise on the budget director. In a remarkable turnaround from the deep concern that many of them had expressed only three days earlier about Lance's business affairs, they lobbed soft questions at him, asked even gentler follow-ups, and accepted his answers at face value. Ohio Democrat John Glenn wondered whether "Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally...
Even so, there are enough imaginative gags and such a pleasantly adoles cent spirit about the film as to warrant looking in on it some hot summer's night. It is to be hoped, though, that Feldman - and everybody else - will follow Woody Allen's lead, give up parodies of popular cultural forms and turn their attention, in the manner of Annie Hall, to life itself...
Blumenthal argues that the U.S. cannot boost the world economy alone. He has repeatedly called on West Germany, Japan and other nations with trade surpluses to follow the U.S. lead and take in more imports. But these countries have been extremely reluctant to comply for fear of igniting a new round of inflation. The growing U.S. deficits have been of concern to foreign money men; about a month ago they began dumping their dollar holdings to buy stronger currencies-thus setting off the current slide in the value of the greenback...
Anthropologist Sahlins in The Use and Abuse of Biology, the only anti-sociobiology book published to date, contends that kinship patterns among humans do not?as sociobiological theory predicts?always follow bloodlines. He also argues that Trivers' theory of reciprocal altruism simply does not work: an individual may help himself by behaving altruistically, but he also helps one of his competitors. Thus there is no net advantage to altruistic behavior, and it should be selected against by evolution...
...leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says a spokesman, "We don't want anyone to destroy the illusion of flight...