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While the examples and words may be new, this sort of view is hardly original. Every decade in this century has been condemned by someone as the worst, most hopeless period of history; at the very least, each period was compared unfavorably to the past. That is a symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every...
...National Velvet, ecumenically titled International Velvet, premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center last week. Tatum, sweet 14 and dressed to kill in a silk suit and spike-heeled sandals, was fetchingly on hand. "I didn't even want to become an actress," she confessed. "It just sort of happened...
Carter's threat to veto any bill that lowers the capital gains rate is widely thought to be a bluff, but if positions continue to harden, he may make good on his threat. That could be calamitous. Congress almost certainly will pass some sort of cut in capital gains, but vetoing the entire bill just for this would hurt the economy. On Jan. 1, taxpayers face some $6.6 billion in additional Social Security levies and the expiration of about $11.5 billion in temporary income tax cuts enacted during the Ford Administration. Unless the resulting tax increases are offset...
...tree to protect herself. The elements of that myth ? eroticism, physical change and an invocation of the antique past ? pervade Mary Frank's work as a whole. Bodies be come landscape, human anatomy wavers into that of animal or plant, and the structure of flesh undergoes a sort of fossilization. Her aim is to recomplicate sculpture: to make objects that cannot be taken in at a glance, that demand thought and gradual digestion...
...give the game away by resting on that modest achievement. Few of the other "all-stars" do much more than trace a broad Crayola line around fa miliar types. The Cheap Detective offers a few snorts of recognition and a basically good-natured air. But frankly, they did this sort of thing just as well, and a lot more quickly, on the Carol Burnett Show. Don't even mention Sid Caesar's old program. - Richard Schickel