Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen trips to New Hampshire so far this year may be a little excessive, hopes to avoid drawing attention to the fact that the reporter's own early presence on the scene is also much ado about nothing. Paradoxically, the presidential politicking season lengthens while voter interest declines. Much of the old gusto for hitting the campaign trail-which candidates sometimes had to feign and political junkies in the press corps sometimes had to suppress-has disappeared. It's now a long grind...
...dividends in tax-free Citizens stock instead of cash (only when they sell the stock do the owners pay capital gains taxes). This unique benefit-the IRS soon after forbade it to other firms-allowed Citizens to raise capital without going to market often and paying heavy interest...
...source of much that is wrong in the U.S.: its tax system. In his view, the system fosters too many tax shelters, expense-account freeloaders and assorted cheaters. It penalizes achievement because it taxes salaries at rates up to 50% and capital (in the form of dividends and interest...
Though Rich Kids is a snappy title, it does not fit this fashionable, smart-talking New York comedy. The film's twelve-year-old hero and heroine, Jamie (Jeremy Levy) and Franny (Trini Alvarado), are rich all right, but Rich Kids has no interest in the vicissitudes of wealth. The movie is actually about the effect of divorce on children-an equally good subject, but one that deserves more justice than it receives here. As the cute but empty title indicates, Rich Kids would rather be glib than honest...
...picture breaks down awkwardly when it tries to express directly what it has already said better by implication. This generally occurs in earnest scenes between Elliott and his all too dense girlfriend. Dayle Haddon's inexperienced playing adds nothing even faintly convincing to the badly written love interest, and the rest of the film has to struggle to recover from the resulting dead spots. Still, North Dallas Forty retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment.-Richard Schickel