Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famed brothers, it is Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho who achieves inspired mimicry. He has the best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...
Professors v. Politicians. Many economists think that the nation wilf need a quicker and greater increase in money than Burns apparently has in mind if the Administration is to head off a recession. Milton Friedman's followers argue that it takes six to nine months for any switch in monetary policy to make its impact felt on the economy. Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, calculates that industrial production is likely to drop an additional 4% even if the Federal Reserve begins...
Domestic squabbles are handled by members of the precinct's so-called Family Crisis Intervention Unit. The officers have been specially trained to subdue arguments with stratagems not always employed by men in blue: consideration, understanding, compassion and gentleness. "I pick up things much quicker now than before," says F.C.I.U. Patrolman John Timony, "because I'm looking for them. You're actually trying to help people now, whereas before you were simply trying to calm the situation...
...organic. The menu includes whole dinners as well as many good invididual dishes like buckwheat noodles, miso soup, hi? jicki beans, fresh fish, and organic desserts. You can sit at a wooden table, furnished with soy sauce and sesame salt, or at the counter where service is quicker. For a bit over a dollar you can eat a healthy untainted meal. Open all week...
...faster than pain can follow to the deepest resources of the imagination. No one else's emblems of the irrational at the core of man-not Jean Genet's black white Negroes, not Samuel Beckett's ashcans, not even Jerzy Grotowski's Holy Auschwitz-are quicker or more deadly than Eugene lonesco's best: when he bothers to aim, he can knock the cigarette from one's lips at 40 paces. As Death and the nun came together onstage in Dusseldorf in the world premiere of lonesco's The Triumph of Death, applause...