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...other short subjects by women filmmakers are included on the Magic Movies bill. All in a Woman's Day by Jessica Sphon and Amateur Night by Thalia Goldman both strike unfortunate and harsh notes in a program characterized otherwise by cool sophistication and robust humor. Spohn at least handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves...
...taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life and excitement...
...most pressing national problem confronting the new Premier is the lackluster performance of the once robust Japanese economy. In the third quarter of 1976, Japan's gross national product limped ahead at the annual rate of 1.3% (compared with 3.8% in the U.S.). In other years, Japan could hope to spark its economy by increasing exports. But both U.S. businessmen and the European Community have complained that underpriced Japanese goods are already flooding their markets (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). They demand that Tokyo sell less and import more. As a former Finance Minister and one of his country...
...that it had been authorized to shell out during 1976. The economy was robbed of that much spending power and slowed all the more. Harvard Professor and Board of Economists member Otto Eckstein estimates that total federal purchases will rise less than 1% during 1976, hardly enough to promote robust growth...
...case, few on Wall Street will be sorry to see 1976 end. It has been a strange year, in which a volcanic opening led only to months of puzzlement and frustration. Paralleling the economy's robust first-quarter growth, the Dow spurted ahead 157 points, to 1009, from Jan. 1 to March 24. But for the next six months the market moved listlessly sideways. Tantalizingly, the Dow pierced the 1000 mark no fewer than eleven times during the year, only to fall back every time. On Sept. 21, the index reached 1014, its peak for the year, but then...