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Buffett, who worked as a Post newsboy when his father represented a Nebraska district in Congress, bought into the Post Co. in 1973, and perhaps to protect his 10.5% slice of nonvoting stock. has become virtually an unpaid Post Co. executive. He spends much of his time on company business and is a frequent Graham dinner guest. "Intellectually, he dominates her," comments one editor who knows them both. "You remember how her orientation changed to talking about stockholders, profits and the bottom line? That's Buffett's influence." Israel is said to have resented the Nebraskan...
...ending. Comic without being cruel since Schwarzenegger numbers among his many gifts the ability to let losers down lightly -it has tact, delicacy and psychological acuity. These are qualities few fictional films have managed in recent months. For documentarians to quarry them out of a seemingly slim slice of life seems almost miraculous, particularly since neither director can be considered a seasoned talent...
...bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that the resulting publicity would cause the network to reverse its decision and put the man on as a regularly scheduled Mad Prophet of the airways; that emboldened by this success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time to a revolutionary group something like the Symbionese Liberation Army so they can stage their heists before a slack-jawed mass audience; that meantime the Mad Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings...
There is, occasionally, a certain funky charm about Car Wash. One wishes that somebody had really thought about the thing and shaped it into what it might have been-a genuinely affecting, amusing slice of lower-depths urban life. Instead, the picture tries to get by on an unassuming, throw-away air-and ends up as an inoffensive disappointment...
MAYBE HOROVITZ'S PLAY qualifies as social realism, exposes the plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...