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Lumet directs Gilly's already enervated movements with a wet sock. Not only is Gilly unable to capture much interest, as he races around searching for Garbo, but Lumet provides a leaden pace, that never seems to pick up, even as Gilly comes close to meeting the great film star. In fact, it is only the movie's title that assures us that Gilly will indeed find Garbo...
Mondale struck back quickly. "I'm convinced they are going to sock it to the average American; they've got in mind a national sales tax or value-added tax." Reagan, he charged, "seems to be afraid to be straight with the American people." Mondale, for his part, has not yet specified how he would make good on his promise to reduce the deficit by two-thirds during his first term. Rather than seeking any sort of sales tax, which hits poorer people relatively harder than the well-to-do, he would probably rely partly on higher income...
...husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown quantity of fruit on a supermarket expedition, she offered to weigh him and pay for everything over 53 Ibs. About...
...finally a millionaire," said Calvin McCracken, adding that he had been a millionaire several times before, only to plow his money into other ideas, some of which were not successful enough to a sustain his membership | in the world of mega° wealth. McCracken said he would probably sock his funds into yet another notion, as he always has. (Next time you go to the cinema, as you pass those hot dogs turning on those tubular rollers, think of McCracken. He made a million...
...course, Claude predictably ends up in the sleazy offices of the private detective and falls for "evidence" of his wife's infidelity. Once deserted by his own younger wife, the detective shows Claude videotapes showing some amorphous Argyle sock clad man leaving his luxurious apartment late at night. Still retaining his facade of trust. Claude suggests the man could be a "repairman." At 1.00 in the morning? "The only thing that breaks at that time of the morning," the detective says, "are the hearts of men like us." Fitting every scrap of evidence into his now increasingly suspicious mind, Claude...