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...Administration may have sound reason to dismiss these bold but admittedly untested ideas, but so far it has produced no convincing alternatives. The anti-inflation plan of Carter and Co., based mostly on friendly persuasion, is so weak and ineffectual that even White House insiders mock it as "wishboning." That is a category of soft talk inferior even to the old "jawboning," which other Presidents used?with distinctly mixed results ?in the crusade to hold down wage and price rises...
...Attorney Glistrup had attracted scores of wealthy clients through his enterprising use of the deductions allowed by Danish law on debt interest. Essentially, he set up a string of 2,716 dummy firms for his clients-bearing such mock names as the Lyngby Umbrella Rental Co. and the RXPQY-240 Co. These paper enterprises could then absorb the paper debts of Glistrup's clientele and pay income taxes at half the rate charged to private persons. Glistrup split the savings with his clients, who were able to enter less punishing tax brackets. In some cases, they managed to avoid...
...Betsy will probably be rock-bottom for Laurence Olivier; let us hope in the future that he accepts projects that will not mock the accomplishments of a heroic career. Maybe a legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...
...living in Hoffman Estates. Irion's home in Illinois was only five minutes away from the Medinah golf club where the 1975 U.S. Open was held. Medinah was built by the Shriners, members of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The course features a resplendent mock Moorish clubhouse and is laid out around Lake Kadijah, named after Mohammed's wife. In fact, those same Shriners are responsible for building that nondescript arena in Billings where Steve Irion used to go to watch the Montana state basketball finals...
...freeing life itself. Chance, ambiguity, insult, nonsense, anything would serve, if it promised to break the crust. Above all, there was irony: the indifference of Duchamp, -the attacks on the social jugular perpetrated by German Dadaists like George Grosz and John Heartfield, and Picabia's drawings, which make mock of the cult of the machine. When this battery of anarchic techniques moved to Paris in the '20s, colliding with a long but temporarily dormant tradition of romanticism, surrealism was the result...