Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beating back Carter some time after the first ballot at the convention. Says Brown: "If I do, I see no reason why I shouldn't be the nominee. So I just work back from that and run it through. That's my Jesuit thinking and Talmudic logic." In the eyes of most Democrats, it is also an impossible dream this year -but wait till...
Economists these days are applying a kind of Sherlock Holmes logic to the strange case of interest rates. Like the watchdog who did not bark (thus signifying to Holmes that the crime he was investigating must have been an inside job, perpetrated by someone the dog knew), loan charges have been doing the opposite of what might be expected. They have been lying low throughout a period when all past experience indicates they should have been rising. Like Holmes, economists think that this curious behavior must provide an important clue-in this case to what is really happening...
...costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally must gross $18 million before it covers overhead and distribution costs and even begins returning a profit. "The numbers are incredible," says Mike Medavoy, United Artists' production chief. "I sometimes wonder about the logic...
...Logic notwithstanding, studios are increasingly grabbing for the brass ring. Warner Brothers last week began production of Exorcist II, starring Richard Burton. Initial budget: $10 million. Next year Warner will release two new megadisaster flicks produced by Irwin (Towering Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the World Ended. Each will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph...
LESBIANISM is sometimes interpreted and feared as a hostile reaction to men. But by this logic, you could take female heterosexuality for a sign of hostility toward other women. A friend of mine returning from a bar early one morning told me of an incident she thought I might "understand" better than the man and woman she had been with. There was a woman playing guitar in this place, and as my friend watched her from a distance she sort of "fell in love" with her. Neither of us is sure exactly what this means, but a certain affinity with...