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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounds it?and it is indeed part of the mystique, borrowed from TV game shows. In the Michigan lottery, finalists participate in an elaborate game show on prime-time TV that outdraws every other program on the air. People who make gambling their business are passionately anonymous. "It's sort of like sex," says a no-nonsense Manhattan punter. "If you score, it should be up to you whether you want to tell anyone about...
...third of the new players are women. Strategy and "court sense"-the subtleties of caroms and positioning -can serve to neutralize male advantages in strength. One Chicago woman, however, reports a feminine disadvantage: "Women are more reluctant to push and shove the other player than men, and that sort of aggressiveness is necessary in this game." Age does not seem to be a factor. The top woman player in the country is 40-year-old Peggy Steding, a professional racquetballer from Odessa, Texas. She has won every major title in the past four years, routinely whipping opponents young enough...
...success. Kazan and Pinter go smarmy in the romantic episodes, where Fitzgerald struggled for-and found-a saving, tough-minded detachment. Here, Kathleen is rendered with the same smitten fascination that overcame Stahr. She is played by Newcomer Ingrid Boulting (stepdaughter of British Producer Roy Boulting) with a sort of spacey spirituality that seems part Pre-Raphaelite, part post-psychedelic. Theresa Russell, who plays Brady's daughter, the proud possessor of a crush on Stahr, is around more than her role and meager talent require...
...these missing parts, he is a full-time resister and iconoclast who loudly lacerates the world with mockery. His friend and foil is Rich Bone, a handsome and once successful corporate executive who sees life's flaws so clearly that he has retreated to become a sort of passive picaro. Bone bums around the beaches of Santa Barbara, Calif., lives off a succession of women and wearily hopes that "something will happen. Something will change...
Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said a tax reduction of some sort is the quickest way to get the nation out of its current economic stall...