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After flings with Keynesianism and supply-side economics, the U.S. should return to traditional conservative policies. That is Herbert Stein's message in Presidential Economics - The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Simon & Schuster; 414 pages; $16.95). Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1972 to 1974, describes how more than 30 years of such liberal standbys as tax cuts and increasing Government regulation helped bring about the runaway inflation of the late 1970s. "By 1980," he writes, "the country was ready for a more radical turn of economic policy...
...Stein finds plenty of fault with President Reagan's supply-side promises...
...Claude, Moore engages rival Stein in a spectacular "dueling violins" scene and sends the apprentice crashing into the tables. With equal case, Moore brings freshness and warmth to a potentially hackneyed older-jealous-husband-suspects-young-sexy-wife routine...
...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 concludes the socks of his wife's lover belong to Max Stein (Armand Assante), his protege and rising violin player. Still in New York, Claude is ready for more than sulking...
...object of all pre-pubescent female desire in Little Darlings and Eurostud in Private Benjamin, Armand Assante competently plays the lover apparent and star violinist. Where violinist Stein should be unconscious, Armand Assante keeps his eyes closed. Throughout the entire film, he plays the self-centered seducer, and yet he never takes himself so seriously as to make his character one-dimensional and boring...