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...three years ago it brought forth a cheerful magazine-sized volume called The Jewish Catalog. Modeled after the countercultural Whole Earth Catalog, with a breezy text embellished by sprightly cartoons, the work was a do-it-yourself primer on Jewish customs and religious practices. It also turned into a runaway bestseller, currently in its tenth printing, with nearly 200,000 copies sold at $5.50. Inevitably, readers poured in new ideas. Inevitably, there had to be a sequel...
Nearly four months after it was launched-in response to the death of three children crushed by the runaway car of an IRA militant shot through the heart by a British soldier-the peace movement has grown into a potentially powerful political force. Braving death threats, verbal abuse, and occasional violence from extremists, tens of thousands of Ulster Protestants and Roman Catholics have joined weekly marches and rallies calling for an end to the bloodshed. More significant, the movement is sprouting organizational roots. Enjoying broad support from Ulster's churches and with a flourishing magazine, financial backing...
...less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew it could be a big success. Pretty girls against The Blue Knight and Quest. If it was up against Police Woman and M*A*S*H it would not be a runaway...
...makes for an awkward occasion: a group of gifted people working so far below their best talents that everything takes on the giddy air of a runaway charade. Director Vincente Minnelli, a flamboyant, lushly elegant stylist, has been responsible not only for some of the greatest movie musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but some enjoyably parboiled melodramas as well (The Bad and the Beautiful, Some Came Running). Here he is working for the first time with Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted...
...such as the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which Carter supports, likewise offer only short-term panaceas to problems that must be dealt with on a broader scale. Bills such as these mean massive fiscal outlays and only short-term job security. And without proportionate tax increases, they mean huge deficits, runaway inflation and the "hidden tax" of diminished purchasing power for the individual...