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...magician, by myth, found himself, while performing one of his most famous escapes, trapped underwater in an icy river. He found air bubbles between the hard ice and the water's surface, and they were enough to sustain him until he broke through. The Pet Shop Boys are on to this trick. They know, like Houdini, that the cold helps set the legend...
...have come half a dozen newer comedies, most of which are Christmas carols in disguise. It is as if the industry realized that at holiday time comedies need to begin as Scrooge and end up as Santa. They must pretend to a cleansing meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage...
Meanwhile, Congress grudgingly bowed to the White House last week and approved $8.1 million in humanitarian aid for the rebels. (The package: $4.6 million for food, clothing and medical supplies, along with $3.5 million to deliver the goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask for fresh military assistance at the end of January. That will be shortly after Central American leaders are scheduled to meet in Costa Rica to determine whether the Sandinistas and the contras have tried in good faith to achieve a cease-fire. If the Sandinistas seem to be stalling, Congress...
...hopeless loans, taking the losses now rather than putting them off. Last week Bank of Boston, the 13th largest U.S. bank, said it plans to write off $200 million of its total $1 billion in Third World loans and set aside $470 million to pay for losses it might sustain on the rest. While other banks, led by New York's Citicorp, announced huge set-asides earlier this year to cover losses on Latin debt, the Boston bank's move was the first time that a major lender had given up on such loans. The radical decision puts pressure...
...greater challenge, though, is that the actors have to sustain for nearly three hours the audience's interest in the story of an embittered, vengeful killer whose philosophy is "we all deserve to die." But if such a character can be engaging, then Tolins' Sweeney is engaging. Edwards' Mrs. Lovett is hilarious, as are Johnson's lascivious, foppish beadle and Arthur Fuscaldo's Pirelli, a mountebank rival barber. Wolman's judge is surprisingly sympathetic, and Michael Starr is strong as Tobias, Mrs. Lovett's fiercely devoted young shill...