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...EMANUEL FRIEDMAN, M.D. Burlingame, Calif...
...that power in direct retaliation, but the bankers do not want to antagonize him, particularly at a time when they have many acquisitions in the works. Instead of raising the prime now, bankers are likely to offer the 6% rate to fewer borrowers. Or, as Economist Milton Friedman quips, the prime rate is the rate at which banks will refuse to lend money to their best customers. Charges for other kinds of short-term credit-Treasury bills, federal funds, 90-and 180-day commercial paper-will keep edging upward. Rates are rising because loan demand is increasing...
Despite such nuances as May and her cast provide, the artistry of the film is ultimately limited by its very theme. Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, on which the movie is based, has lost its comic edge in this post-Portonoy era, so much so that the ethnic overtones in the film are often annoying. That this picture, technically excellent in so many ways, should bump up against thematic cliches which become embarrassments and irritants, is an indication that the arts and entertainment people have milked dry yet another erstwhile sacred...
...before Norman Cousins left the magazine. Martin Levin, who edits the column, thinks that the heartland is ready for some topical humor because "the little old lady from Dubuque is now in touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining, we're collecting the fragments and painstakingly assembling them into whole insects." New Yorker Writer Garrison Keillor parodies speed-reading courses and concludes: "You are now able to read at the amazing rate...
...Neil Simon script is blessedly free of the frenetic banter of his plays. The plot, taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...