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Ford's pre-emptive first strike on the issue of tax and spending cuts seemed like shrewd economics as well as clever politics. On the one hand, most economists, including a good many conservatives, are persuaded that more stimulus, in the form of bigger tax breaks, will be needed in the future to ensure that the recovery continues. At the same time, even liberals will find it hard to deny that some effort to hold down federal spending is necessary. However, some economists wonder whether Ford's challenge will have the intended impact on Capitol Hill. For instance...
...Here is mostly large chunks of miners' dialogue and still photos that avoid the sensational. Reid and Woolley portray sensitive, shrewd, brave mountain folks instead of hillbilly pawns. Like a similar documentary four decades ago on Alabama tenant farmers by James Agee and Walker Evans, We Be Here was rejected by the editors who commissioned it. Fortunately, another unabashedly subjective book on some not-so-famous people deserving of praise has finally made it into print...
...tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black model, who drew the attention of the mass media when she danced around a fantastically big can of deodorant on television...
...much as a movie as what Hollywood calls a project. Based on a least-selling novel called Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady, such a project is conceived and comes into being only because Redford agrees to show up in it. Redford is a good, shrewd, sometimes very funny actor, but the fact that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson...
...FORRESTER (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.) is a Police Story spinoff, starring shrewd but compassionate Lloyd Bridges as a detective walking a beat in uniform, trying to clean up his old neighborhood. He appears to like everyone he meets, never steals apples from the fruit stand and is respected by the locals. Even when he is responsible for the death of both sons of a woman he has known for decades, her admiration for him remains unsullied. He is, in short, the peace officer who passeth all understanding. So does his show...