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Stroszek. The latest film bearing the stamp of the trendy German director, Werner Herzog, is an appropriate exhibit of what happens when the filmmaker pours his innards into the camera and lets the script slide. This would-be saga abouty three losers who flee the slums of Berlin for the promise of America delivers some startling imagery all right, but the story's fascination with the daily trampling of a society's outcasts serves precious little creative purpose. Witnessing the humiliation and coldness meted out to whores and alcoholics does not do your head much good, and the gratuitous...
Nonetheless, Mayor Hofheinz strenuously opposes forming a civilian board to review complaints. Local attitudes he believes, are such that the board would be little more than "a rubber stamp for the department." Says he: "I know how this city works...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such...
...first accomplishment was convincing the U.S. Senate?and Ohio's powerful Republican Mark Hanna?that the Panama route was superior to the Nicaraguan. His chief argument: Nicaragua was prey to volcanic eruptions. On the morning of a crucial Senate vote, Bunau-Varilla sent every Senator a Nicaraguan five-peso stamp picturing an erupting volcano that could have been Mount Momo-tombo, near the proposed canal line. The Senate switched to Panama on June 19, 1902. Soon afterward, Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay began to press Colombia to agree to a treaty. Their offer: $10 million in gold, plus...
...Annette O'Toole has the film's best tough talk to handle, and her verbal style contrasts piquantly with her fresh, natural good looks. Finally, there is G.D. Spradlin as the martinet coach to consider. He is not so much a molder of men as a stamp press, mean and implacable. The role may be overwritten, but Spradlin underplays it beautifully. It is no joke going one on one with him for possession of your own soul. The conflict of wills between him and Benson-though it may be implausible in some of its details-is just...