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...pirouette over gas policy is a result of a key provision in the energy act. Before it passed, gas that was drilled and consumed in the same state was exempt from federal price controls and therefore could be sold locally at a higher price than if it had been bought in another state. As a result, even during the severe gas shortages of recent winters, a few producer states such as Texas and Louisiana had more gas on hand than they knew what to do with. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates gas within the state, has kept...
...steep: for each one-tenth of a gallon that its fleet falls below the required 19 m.p.g. average, a company must pay a federal fine of $5 for every car it sells. Since GM sells around 5 million autos annually, a shortfall of one-tenth of a gallon could result in a fine of $25 million...
...Simon's Broadway hit, a collection of four one-act plays set in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Rather than film the segments in succession, as Arthur Hiller did in his ill-fated screen version of Simon's Plaza Suite, Ross cuts back and forth among them. The result looks not unlike an episode of ABC's The Love Boat. The approach at least keeps the audience awake. One never knows when Ross will break away from the more tedious subplots to reveal a Simon zinger...
...during the two years that she, her family and an assortment of acquaintances spent hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic, has faded in the 23 years since it was first produced. We come to it already knowing what we feel about Anne and her situation. As a result interest tends to shift toward how an American acting family, Eli Wallach, his wife Anne Jackson and their daughters, Roberta and Katherine, fare as impersonators of the Franks...
Saul K. Padover, distinguished American political scientist (Jefferson: A Biography, Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Freedom), wrestles with these problems for 667 pages; the result is a fascinating draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum...