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...Biggs and Kim Staunton bring dignity and slow- dawning horror to the doomed servant Bob and his wife. And Tom Hewitt excels as the lord's other footman, as defiant as Bob is trusting. In a sardonic twist by Bond, this challenge to authority gets nowhere. Caught as a runaway thief, the self-assertive servant, like the deferential one, is hanged on an unjust...
...deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...ardent Keynesian, the silver-haired Modigliani advocates using flexible taxing and spending programs to steer the economy. He took the occasion of his new celebrity last week to attack the runaway budget deficit and the Reagan Administration's economic policies...
...quartet of oddball superheroes in NBC's Misfits of Science. Comedy, meanwhile, has gone back to the basics: three of the five new offerings revolve around wholesome nuclear families--two of them black--in an obvious effort to duplicate the recipe that made The Cosby Show last season's runaway...
...numbers alone tell an awesome story. U.S. debt for all households, governments and nonfinancial businesses swelled last year by $722 billion, or 14%, marking the largest increase ever. Led by the runaway buildup of federal borrowings, every sector of the economy contributed to the record gain. Business added the heaviest load of new obligations in more than a decade. Consumer debt took the greatest leap in five years. Warns Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker: "Debt growth of this magnitude would appear to be much faster than is consistent with the long-run health of our economy and financial system...