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...overworked jokes. As they indiscriminately mock diverse sectors of American life, their many-colored pallet congeals into a brown blob. Particularly offensive are the overheated but not well done comments on sex change operations, the welfare system, and rugged individualism. In one scene, Jane's father refuses to lend money because he worships an icon of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the promoter of self-reliance. Here, the humor is too forced to be incisive or even amusing...
LIFE INSURERS would lend the money at 5% to 8% interest annually, if the salesman had built up a cash value of $2,000 or more in a policy. Since he would in effect be borrowing his own money, he could repay the principal whenever he felt like it, or not at all. In that case the $2,000 would be deducted from the proceeds paid to his beneficiaries when he died...
CREDIT UNIONS would generally lend to a salesman-member at 12% annually. But if he belonged to Polaroid Corp.'s credit union, an annual refund of interest would reduce the real rate to 9.6%. Payments: about $80 a month for three years. BANKS offered strikingly varied terms on a straight installment loan. In Boston, National Shawmut Bank would lend at 14% per year for 24 months (monthly payment: $96.02). First National Bank of Boston would offer a "revolving line of credit" with an indefinite repayment period and charge interest of 18% annually on the first $500 of unpaid balance...
...Journey of the Wolf manages to outlast the errors and inexperience of its author. Although his touch is unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
What he wants the people in Washington to do is to release classified docu ments, which "prove" that the war was needlessly prolonged in order to lend "credibility" to U.S. protestations of cold war military toughness...