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Quirky Insight. Mikey and Nicky is the work of three gifted people-the two leading actors and the writerdirector, who has been responsible for two of the funniest and most startling comedies of the decade, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid. But here Falk and Cassavetes seem at sea, and May's talent gets lost in all the surrounding craziness, much of which has been well documented. Mikey and Nicky was begun in 1973, but is just now being released after numerous lawsuits. Paramount sued May for breach of contract, trying to repossess a film they already owned...
Public service employment has its limitations. Without controls, the program can create "leaf-raking" employment and end up padding state and local payrolls without producing a net reduction in unemployment. Critics have called it "a revenue sharing program pretending to be a manpower program." A rule of thumb that has been accepted by economists holds that because of "displacement"-new workers hired while old ones are fired-it takes 1 million public service jobs to reduce unemployment by about...
...launched a campaign to battle the epidemic of indecipherable script. The association urges the nation's scribblers to slow down, make their letters open and rounded, cross t's and watch out for the troublesome trio: a, e and r. The time to turn over this new leaf is Jan. 23, National Handwriting Day-which also happens to be John Hancock's birthday...
...used sports to order its social house in virtually every particular of life. English knights jousted for the hand of a lady; Philippine villagers set the boundaries of paddyfields in wrestling matches; Greek city-states staked local pride ("We're No. 1 in the Peloponnesus!") on the laurel-leaf total at Olympia. Wherever and whenever the match, a crowd gathered to be entertained. So the evolution of Super Bowl Sunday was just a matter of time and technology, awaiting the installation of millions of television sets. Indeed, there are remarkable similarities between the first prehistoric foot race?undoubtedly enhanced...
Died. Munro Leaf, 71, creator of Ferdinand the Bull in a 1936 children's story that has since been translated into 16 languages and sold 2.5 million copies; of cancer; in Garrett Park, Md. Leaf taught high school before writing and illustrating dozens of children's books. Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull who would rather sniff flowers than fight, later starred in a Walt Disney movie, and was used to sell merchandise from cereal to diamond pins...