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...much noticed but little recorded sector of American business activity is thriving as never before. It is the underground economy, an illicit system of cash and barter in exchange for goods and services. Because it operates beyond the statistician's reach and the tax collector's grasp, no one knows its exact size and scope. But various learned economists, who find this fast-growing sector to be a fertile field for academic investigation, estimate that it runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year...
...made a mistake in not having a woman review the movie Dracula [July 23]. Mr. Schickel either did not grasp or simply ignored the film's best asset, Frank Langella's sex appeal. Any woman who sees the film will go "batty" over its leading...
...Prince Fahd himself has played a key role in coaxing Arafat toward moderation. When Fahd got Arafat's consent, he gave the O.K. for increased oil production. Acutely aware that taps can be as easily turned off as on, the Administration fears that if the U.S. does not grasp the opportunity to engage the Palestinians in the peace process now, it could face serious cutbacks in Arab oil supplies in the fall...
Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois Senator: "Some people have an instinctive grasp of power. Winston Churchill didn't need zero-based budgeting...
...shows little shyness. It boldly confronts the isolation and private logic of madness, and shows how aberration, anguish and longing can be turned into lucid fiction. Beyond this, Frame has a satiric grasp of the absurdities that pass for normal. Intensive Care (1970), for example, is about a future welfare tyranny in New Zealand where tranquilizers are put in the water supply, and all the grass and trees are plastic. Visions of brave new worlds are many, but Frame makes them newer with a brew of personal lyricism, broad cultural allusion and sudden chills...