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...Wild Ride (1960) d. Harvey Berman...
...staggering interest rates. Three years ago, it seldom cost more than 1 11% to finance a new car. Today carrying charges run to 18% lacocca told Reagan Administration officials three weeks ago that the industry would continue to be depressed until interest rates dropped to around 15%. Says Harvey Heinbach, a Merrill Lynch auto analyst: "The consumer doesn't want to commit himself to four years of those high car payments when he is uncertain of the outlook for business, for inflation...
Gilliam, the one American in the Python troupe, got his start in New York in the early 1960s as assistant editor of Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazine Help!, which specialized in live-action comic strips called fumettis (puffs of smoke). In Time Bandits, Gilliam is still the innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less...
DIED. Mary Coyle Chase, 74, a Colorado-born playwright and mother of three sons who wrote the 1945 Pulitzer-prizewinning play Harvey, an enchanting tale about Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle lush whose best friend is Harvey, a 6-ft.-plus talking rabbit that only Elwood could see and hear but two generations of Americans adored; of a heart attack; in Denver. A reporter for the Rocky Mountain News before she switched to playwriting, Chase was notably unsuccessful until Harvey suddenly brought her fame and fortune with its 1,775 Broadway performances and its remake as a movie starring Jimmy...
Unfortunately to at least one listener this degree was not reflected in last Friday's concert. Harvey Seigal, violin, Michael Zaretsky, viola, and Martha Babcock, cello, played string trios by Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven as if they were sightreading and bored. The problem was not so much technique (although there were a few shaky moments) as ensemble. The group played stiffly, without moving or reaching to one another, and they barely even bowed to the audience...