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...people off the relief rolls and into jobs, ! and the manifold social evils associated with AFDC have only been getting worse. Poverty rates have generally risen since the late '70s, and the rise has been especially rapid among the children the system was designed to help. Welfare mothers who rear children who in turn go on relief are a core element of the so-called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more; at any one time they constitute a startling...
Classic Hitchcock in skeletal form: the setting of Rear Window; the mama's-boy murderer from Strangers on a Train; and even a fashionable switch of identities from Vertigo and Marnie. There are other rewards in this low- rent thriller. Guttenberg is no one's nominee for an '80s Cary Grant, but his frat-boy smile freezes nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot...
Mario Cuomo hovers on the edge of acceptability. The Governor needs a little feathering on the sides and in the rear so he does not look quite so much like a provincial New Yorker. After all, he is running to be President of all the people, not just Queens. Howard Baker has a fine haircut for a Vice President, Milt insists, which is Milt's way of suggesting he come around for a trim...
...ante goes up. Last time his campaign cost $4 million, this time $15 million, next time maybe $25 million. N.Y.Y.C. Rear Commodore and two-time Defender Bus Mosbacher senses "relief" among some of the members that the Cup has passed. "Many of them thought, first, the money had got out of hand. And second, the two- or three-year effort had got away from the Corinthian aspects of yachting." All told, some $200 million was spent in the past three years by seven nations fighting over a $700 silver pitcher. Of course, it is not just a trophy...
...ease, the product of a strict Islamic upbringing from one of the world's most conservative and ascetic nations, has become an international symbol of sybaritic self-indulgence. "I am an artist with my wealth," he says in quiet measured tones while relaxing in a room at the rear...