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...with porno films; its often incomprehensible plot contains more credibility gaps than a William West moreland press briefing. Though Furie staged much of the film on location in Asia, the Viet Nam he re-creates is as placid as the Hollywood he built for Gable and Lombard. Even the sting of death is absent: this may be the first war movie ever to climax with a ponderous soccer match instead of a battle...
...repaid. The Mirage was indeed a mirage, a bar operated by undercover journalists to document widespread corruption in Chicago. Exposed in a 25-part series of Sun-Times articles that began last week, four inspectors have already been suspended, and others fooled by the Mirage will surely feel the sting. In response to the revelations, Mayor Michael Bilandic also initiated a thorough reform of the inspection system...
...take some sting out of the bill, Congress postponed the big tax increases until 1979. This year the Social Security tax rate was 5.85% on the first $16,500 of an employee's wages (earnings above that are not taxed for Social Security). This meant that the maximum payment for workers and bosses was $965 each. Under the old law, the maximum tax was already scheduled to rise next year to $1,071. The bite under the new law will begin in 1979, when the maximum payment will be $1,404 on a salary...
Genesis has been deservedly forgotten; one volume was more than enough. But Schwartz lives in lines that soar and sting: "I am my father's father,/ You are your children's guilt." The funny and unforgiving stories of The World Is a Wedding (1948) remain some of the best work in a genre that has shown the world what it felt like in the Depression to be young, Jewish, and lost, somewhere between the Old Country and the New Criticism...
...were U.S. officials caught by surprise? The sting seems to have been the result of a combination of Soviet duplicity and U.S. gullibility...