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Duvall faces a tougher time with his role, largely because of an incompletely drawn character, and consequently he cannot evoke him as clearly. The origin of Tom's passion--which is directed mostly at nailing Des's crooked benefactor--seems obscure, especially compared to Des's obvious motivation. Sibling rivalry is part of it, but not all. Tom may be seeking a kind of absolution for leading a life so much less holy than his brother's, but that too seems inadequate to explain his obsessive vendetta. Not even Duvall's gritty and angry performance can make it clear. Perhaps...
...origin of last week's IRS action was a congressional measure earlier this year designed to make it easier for the S and Ls to get deposits that could be used for mortgages. During the first seven months of 1981, S and Ls and savings banks lost upwards of $25 billion in funds. Some lending institutions have now virtually stopped making mortgage loans because they no longer have money available. Much of the missing investment is going into money-market funds, which gained $75.7 billion in the past eight months...
...point, for the two countrymen have done a remarkable job of avoiding head-to-head confrontations while assaulting the record books by themselves. The origin of their mutual dislike is obscure, but its effect on the sport is not. New records for the mile were a rarity in the years after Roger Bannister broke the 4 min. barrier in 1954. American Jim Ryun's 1967 record of 3 min. 51.1 sec., for example, endured for eight years. This year Coe and Ovett have batted the record back and forth like a Ping-Pong ball. In a mere ten days...
C17H21NO4. A derivative of Erythroxylon coca. Otherwise known as cocaine, coke, C, snow, blow, toot, leaf, flake, freeze, happy dust, nose candy, Peruvian, lady, white girl. A vegetable alkaloid derived from leaves of the coca plant. Origin: eastern slopes of the Andes mountains. Availability: Anywhere, U.S.A. Cost: $2,200 per oz., five times the price of gold...
...origin of the power shift in Washington, Massachusetts and around the nation lies in the perception that government had stopped working as it is supposed to, that it had become a force for stagnation. The solution, the new-comers promised, was to truncate the government and return many of its powers to the private sector, where a benevolent invisible hand would massage the nation back to spiritual and economic health. We, too, believe those symptoms exist but place our faith in entirely different remedies from those President Reagan has proposed. For all that the President and his supporters speak...