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...misery index that Jimmy Carter first referred to during the 1976 campaign, and that Ronald Reagan keeps citing in his attacks on the President, was concocted during the 1973-75 recession by the late economist Arthur Okun, who called it the discomfort index. He saw it as a puckish way to spotlight the nation's economic ills. The measure is simply the sum of the inflation and jobless rates. On Election Day of 1976 the index stood at 12.8%, with inflation at 5% and unemployment at 7.8%. The rate has climbed to 20% during Carter's White House...
Hoffman was released last week without bail. On trial, at a date that has not yet been set, will be a mellower but still puckish Hoffman. One chapter of his autobiography describes the horrors of the six weeks that he spent in 1973 in the Tombs, a now closed prison in New York City. The chapter's title: "You Can't Have Your Coke...
...when he reappeared, he was asked whether he thought a settlement of the strike was near. Replied Walesa: "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. I've just been praying it will end tonight." At first uncomfortable with the adulation he was receiving, Walesa now exudes a puckish cockiness. In a lighthearted conversation with journalists he declared, "I am the leader...
...violinist-to be one of the world's leading virtuosos-is for Stern merely a starting point. He is also a tireless advocate of causes, a godfather to young talent, a lobbyist, a fund raiser and a supreme power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard...
...THAT JAZZ, the camera is an ethereal, puckish tap-dancer, never holding an image for more than a few seconds, popping around incessantly in search of new perspectives. Director Bob Fosse seems to want every possible angle on a scene; even when he holds a shot, a huge mirror in the background offers a second view. The visual style of the movie is nothing less than epic, but it's at war throughout with the relentlessly limited perspective of the heavy-handed script, with the characters who remain flat from any angle...