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...interest rates, profits and price/earnings ratios, the technicians try to divine the future by studying patterns that have seemed to shape trading in the past. The technician, says one of the leading practitioners of the art, Edson Gould of Anametrics, Inc., approaches each new year like "a lion tamer who must anticipate the moves the animal will make." The 1975 moves, as forecast by some of the leading technical theories...
...first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity. Not for him the Joe Namaths, Henry Kissingers or Valerie Perrines of this world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner (1849); William Kemmler, first man to die in the electric chair (1890), and the late great George Crum, inventor of the first potato chip (1853). Surrounding these immortals is a pantheon of some 6,000 achievers and achievements, each one a monument...
...that staid Lisbon has yet turned into another Copenhagen. But sexually explicit Danish magazines are now available on newspaper kiosks along with tamer publications like Penthouse. Uncut versions of previously forbidden films such as Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...
Once the undraped star of underground films (Blue Movie, Lonesome Cowboys), Andy Warhol Protégée Viva is settling into tamer things these days. In her Topanga Canyon house in California, the slender, wide-eyed author of Superstar, a total-immersion confessional novel, is now completing a new book, The Baby, about her three-year-old daughter Alexandra. "She may be the most documented child in history," observes Viva, whose husband, French Film Maker Michel Auder, is engaged in a ten-year project to video-tape their daughter's early years. "I never did know what...
...convey Brick's inattentiveness convincingly, whether he is just lying down with closed eyes, gazing off into space, or whistling about the light of the silvery moon, quite oblivious of what Maggie is saying. Eventually he is goaded into action, and uses a chair as a circus lion-tamer does. In the great scene with Big Daddy, he performs with the right tempi and with shattering intensity. Still, it is a weakness of the script that Williams has not given us a fully-rounded portrait of Brick; we really know less about him than we do about his friend Skipper...