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...Bare Glimmer. But the long-term outlook is far from bright. Bond interest rates are still high by any historic standards, and utilities will be saddled for years with the cost of payments on loans secured at 1974's lofty rates. Profits have improved partly because utilities have cut borrowing and construction costs by pulling back expansion plans. As of early this year, cancellations or postponements had trimmed the prospective generating capacity of nuclear power plants on utilities' drawing boards by about 65%, and the projected capacity of non-nuclear plants by around 40%. The cutbacks could leave...
...Stooges are for kids, and whether you liked them or not you're liable to look back at them after fifteen years and see that shapes that fleshed out much of your consciousness when a glimmer of the world first stirred. The Stooges are pure slapstick--they pound each other and never draw blood, they communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with...
...Glimmer of Hope. Other pressing matters include a settlement of divided Cyprus, which Caramanlis declared "the immediate and crucial problem" facing his government. Last week there were some glimmerings of hope that progress could finally be made. After two months without an effective government, Turkey at last had one; on the very day that Greek voters gave Caramanlis his mandate, Turkish President Fahri Korutü named Sadï Irmak, 70, an appointed Senator who does not belong to any party, as Premier of a caretaker regime. Beyond that, the results of the Greek elections were well received in Ankara, which...
...French Revolution--The Age of Reason. For Goya, as well as for his contemporaries, a belief in human reason was the answer to an age of corrupt religion, incompetent monarchy and political turmoil. If Goya's portraits, commissioned as they were by the Spanish aristocracy, show only a glimmer of his belief in man as the measure of all things, the etchings he made as an independent artist need no such subtlety...
...possible that a better cast could have read more dramatic tension between the lines. The one glimmer of hope in that direction comes from an outstanding job by Lin Kosy as a fantasy-spinning child. She takes a potentially pedestrian part and makes it fly, in a technically superb performance. Her fifteen-minute sequence is almost worth seeing for its own sake. But the remainder of the cast is undistinguished. Joanna Temple accentuates the already brittle, shrill tenor of Toni's role. Sheila Greene as Nina does little to pry her part loose from its rather uninspired box. Only Joan...