Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gauging A.E.I.'s influence is difficult, as the institute concentrates on trying to develop conservative economic and political ideas, and rarely takes a formal position on particular measures. But institute members can point to some specific successes. Sharp criticism by Murray Weidenbaum, an A.E.I. fellow and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, helped kill a 1975 proposal by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to pour $100 billion of federal money into an emergency energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy...
Outrageous! is, to a larger extent than most of today's movies, an actor's film. No question that Craig Russell owes a great deal to the razor-sharp script; his hairdressing, female-impersonating Robin Turner would be little more than a walking parody without Benner's quick-fire comebacks and one-liners. But an actor can only be judged on what he does with the raw material given him, and Russell never stumbles. He may share the top billing with Hollis McLaren's Crazy Liza, but there's little doubt whose film Outrageous...
...label on Marxism at a time when Communist parties in Italy and Spain, as well as in France, are talking up their notion of a "Eurocommunism" that is independent of Moscow and ready to accept democratic forms, including elections. Not surprisingly, the French left's reaction has been sharp. The usually left-leaning daily Le Monde has gamely praised the "passionate challenge" raised by the New Philosophers. But the socialist Le Matin has flatly condemned their thinking as "elegant despair" and "a banal form of dandyism." A commentator in the pro-Socialist Nouvel Observateur blasted the New Philosophers...
Even so, Soap is not without its virtues. Jimmy Baio, as an oversexed 14-year-old, and Billy Crystal, as an out-of-the-closet (but preoperative) transsexual, are sharp young comedians. The series' hellzapoppin plot, whose chaos recalls the '30s farces of Kaufman and Hart, exerts a strong narrative pull. With care, these elements could yet form the basis for entertainment that is both notorious and decent. Soap will surely make enough money to buy itself a heart...
...floundering for a beachhead-it has sharply increased its proportion of service-oriented features -L.A. has steadily tightened its hold on the turf. Under Editor Geoff Miller it has spiced how-where-what consumerism with monthly contributions by such luminaries as Joyce Haber (The Users), who can be a sharp social observer as well as the town's top gossipist, and acerbic Movie Critic John Barbour-along with some of the shrewdest assessments of food, wine and film of any city magazine...