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...Mace Rosenstein), a man who just can't say no to anything, leaves his hut to buy a fish and gets sidetracked for life. He runs into a trio of British privates, who act like manic Boy Scouts with switchblades hidden in their pockets (in fact, a butter knife serves). They develop great career plans for him when a buddy of theirs disappears during a group burglary. Galy's not much of a soldier, but what's the difference, one man's like the next and all are adaptable. "Throw him in a puddle and he'll grow webs between...
...sneering smile, Stockard Channing as Alice puts on a pungent performance that has apparently learned something from Elizabeth Taylor. Throwing back her head in a hollow laugh, grandly reclining on a couch, she is just decent enough to her husband to make it hurt when she finally applies the knife...
...dying of indifference and analysis. Which is more unoriginal, the critique of its technique, is moot. The amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...
...responsible for knowing the spending plans of every federal agency have defended their estimates. Seated across from them-and grilling them-have been their bosses, the top officials of the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Caspar Weinberger, who is known in Washington these days as "Cap the Knife." The OMB's annual item-by-item budget review has been a genuine suspense episode because President Nixon has demanded that the columns for the current fiscal year add up to no more than $250 billion. That can be achieved only by lopping about $1 billion a month...
...police report described both of the robbers as about twenty, black, and clad in blue denim jackets and pants. One carried a nickel-plated revolver in a brown paper bag, the other was armed with a hunting knife...