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...poker game with Europe and Japan on the surcharge, Treasury Secretary John Connally should quit while he is ahead. That is the opinion of TIME's Board of Economists. The most detailed explanation of the reasoning comes from David Grove, who speaks from the perspectives of both an international economist and an officer of one of the largest multinational corporations. He has been an economist in the Federal Reserve and consultant to several Latin American governments, and is now a vice president of IBM. He presents his views as an individual and not a spokesman for his company. Excerpts...
...glove through a fabulous series of dream vicissitudes. The artist competes for this odd love-object against a baleful, glove-napping reptile-which, in The Abduction, sprouts wings like a pterodactyl and lurches off into the night sky with its prey. Such etchings, in their impassioned and somewhat poker-faced grotesqueries, are reminiscent of Goya, who gave visual substance to those monsters that wake when reason dreams. But Goya's repertory contains no more alarming beast than this...
...charade is underscored by the sets, which were rendered in shades of brown and photographed with washes of white light so that the film looks like an under done French fry. The pace is so slow that the real Doc Holliday could have dealt a hand of poker during each halt in dialogue. But Stacy Keach manages to suggest some depth in the Holliday character, and Harris Yullin, as Earp, slithers through his scenes like a genuine sidewinder. Playing Kate Elder, Faye Dunaway is better than she has been since Bonnie and Clyde, raunchy and touchingly haunted by the always...
Twelve-Hour Days. Like Nixon himself, Richardson is a shrewd administrative poker player, although he denies a charge that he hoards his chips. "I haven't lost out on much," he argues. For example, HEW's demands for school busing in Austin, Texas, and other desegregating cities might have been mandated by Supreme Court decisions, but it was Richardson who forestalled any agonizing delay by the Justice Department and the White House by simply informing John Mitchell that it had to be done...
This violent act of surrealism accomplished, Keneally continues as if nothing had happened. He has the special power of a poker-face comedian telling a gallows joke. Father and Mother Glover, for instance, spend their perfectly average evenings kneeling on all fours before the telly or pawing over a Reader's Digest...