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...Salvador been overblown as a foreign policy issue...
...short-term possibilities of the new gene-splicing companies may have been overblown. In the field of medicine, the new chemical creations face lengthy testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before they can be licensed. The application to agriculture will require a great deal of capital, to say nothing of enormous technological advances, before any plants and products can be turned out in sufficient quantities to transform the world. Says James Watson, who with Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for unraveling the double-helix structure of DNA and ultimately making recombinant DNA possible...
...tremendous proportions," as Ronald Reagan told the U.S. two weeks ago? The TIME Board of Economists met last week to review the state of American business and to try to answer that question. The group's consensus: though President Reagan's rhetoric may have been a bit overblown, the economy is indeed in serious trouble. Declining productivity, recalcitrant inflation and the explosion of Government spending have so shackled U.S. business that growth will be sluggish well into the future. Moreover, the time left to reverse that course is growing short. Warned Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources...
...script does little more than gesture half-heartedly in both directions. Since Jeffrey Bloom served as both director and author, blame is easy to place. For instance, a bag lady watches over the beach. She is an overblown caricature (with so much paraphenalia that she needs a huge shopping cart, and looking about as crazy as the washer-woman Carol Burnett did at the end of her shows), but with no real purpose. She makes mysterious soothsayings, but remains aloof during times of crisis. But is she a parody of a God-figure, or simply an underdeveloped character...
...story unfolds in characteristic Chayefsky style, with characters hectoring each other in language no normal person would ever use, saying things like, "By dinnertime, I had dispensed with God altogether." Chayefsky's overblown prose is not always a problem; his last film, Network, had flashes of brilliant insight and style. In it, he wrapped his metaphysical bantering around a plot and made his characters real people, not, as in States, participants in a dramatic reading of his half-baked theories about life. When he sprinkles occasional bits of dialogue among the pontifications about "stimuli deprivation" and "the inner self...