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...city, where federal, state and local income taxes, which have not changed, eat up nearly a third of his gross household income and nearly half of every raise. On an after-tax basis, his wife's job barely covers the cost of dry cleaning and a mother's helper, without whom she could not work. Manager's nothing-fancy four-bedroom, two-bathroom house cost him $475,000. So he has a fat monthly payment. He'd love to invest more in the stock market. But his eldest child starts college in three years. Every spare dime goes into...
...give the film the old Grisham urgency, scripters William Goldman and Chris Reese add a pretty black woman (Lela Rochon) as Adam's helper, a conspiracy of old white guys, and an assassin who gets his due. All this proves is that the filmmakers couldn't trust in the potency of two good actors bringing life to a chat on death...
...actresses (Greta Scacchi, Polly Walker, Juliet Stevenson) march past. But her finest trick is to provide a comic subtext to Emma. She both lives inside the character and encases her, giving her glamour and the lilt of parody. Paltrow is to Emma what Emma is to her friends: a helper, a tease and a judge. Thanks to Paltrow, Emma stays lovable, partly because both are in their early...
...gasoline price hike into perspective [BUSINESS, May 13]. In 1941 when I was 18, I paid 18[cents] to 20[cents] per gal. for my 1933 Plymouth. In 1941 I was earning 40[cents] an hour as an electrician's helper. So I worked half an hour to buy a gallon of gasoline. Compute your hourly earning against the present gasoline price for each gallon; gas is cheaper now than it was then. JIM CURRAN High Island, Texas...
...story line remains basically the same as that of the classic play: four star-crossed lovers run away to a forest inhabited by fairies. Thanks to the Fairy King's mischevious helper Puck, the mortal lovers become even more discombobulated and frantic until the deux-es-machina ending. Meanwhile, the Fairy King squabbles with Queen Titania over custody of their child until Puck's spell causes the queen to temporarily fall in love with Bottom the Ass, a man with the head of a donkey. Once all the confusion subsides, however, a very happy ending ensues...