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...There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have anything to sing about. Times are hard. No one wants to buy Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want you to cut his thing off," she cries to a detective toward the end of this strange, sordid movie. By this time, not a few members...
...Warsaw to crush Solidarity and restore the authority of the Polish government and party, but were not directly involved in Jaruzelski's crackdown. As Eagleburger quickly learned, the Western Europeans were not yet prepared to take concerted action against Poland, though European bankers did decide last week not to lend Poland the additional $350 million it had requested in an effort to stave off bankruptcy...
...bankers are largely of their own making. Poland's foreign debt rose spectacularly throughout the 1970s, while the country's industrial growth rate slowed during the decade. As Poland's centrally planned economy began to sink into chaos, European and American bankers nonetheless continued to lend money to the Warsaw government, prompted in part by the desire of Western governments to maintain the spirit of detente...
While such connections lend themselves well to personal sketches and amusing little stories, they create problems for Nichols in writing the sort of meaningful criticism to which he apparently aspires. He seems at times so busy avoiding stepping on any toes that he has trouble standing in one place very long, for fear that some official toe might appear underfoot...
...seconds. His royalties so far have totaled more than $100,000, but his father plans to salt most of that money away for his son's education and other future needs. Still, classmates at his Richmond school often greet the boy with the plea, "Can you lend me a fiver?" Bossert has just diversified his fledgling business by taping a half-hour video cassette that demonstrates his cube-twirling technique...