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Beastly is the word for the people in this picture. Out beyond Palm Springs, six of the sicklers solo off and chainwhip a couple of stompers from another hogpen. In the peel-off, Loser (Bruce Dern) puts the burn on a police bike, catches a slug in the back, lands on the critical list. H.B. and his buddies bust him out of the hospital, but back at the clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon...
...Fannie Mae's taciturn president, J. Stanley Baughman, explains simply: "We do what we have to do." Pittsburgh-born Baughman, an up-through-the-ranks federal careerist since 1933, made his mark among mortgage men by turning the depression-born Home Owners' Loan Corp. from a money loser into a profit maker. Taking over Fannie Mae in 1950, he tightened up loose operating procedures, chopped his staff while the work load doubled, won a reputation as an administrator who could say no without ruffling too many tempers. Today, at 68, Baughman waves aside talk of retiring. He runs...
...film's message, buried under clouds of smoky jargon, ends with the distressing thought that nonviolence, man, will get you nowhere. Playing a born loser who digs the lesson too late, Davis at best displays his own brash will to win and fires suspicion that a coherent statement about inequality cannot be fitted comfortably into the format of a headline entertainer's syrupy one-man show...
With all the Nadering about auto safety and the effects of tight money, overall sales and profits fell off during 1966 as compared with the same seven-month period last year. General Motors was the big loser, partly because it handled the safety squabble badly and partly because, with more models than anyone else, it had merely face-lifted, instead of restyling. Its January-July unit sales dropped from 2,829,527 to 2,610,696. This more than offset slight gains by Chrysler (up from 818,977 to 837,391, thanks mostly to its "intermediate"-sized Belvedere and Coronet...
...Lesson is a real loser. Admittedly the repertory form limits expanse as well as expense, but a charcoal-black flap can make a pretty ugly stage. Still, everything in its place. The Lesson is a competent, funny production -- everything, in short, that its companion one-acter...