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...movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie has an innocence that...
...White House pols debated just how they might tap this new good will for Ford's political purposes, or at least nurture it through November. Betty Ford, who had worried two years ago that the Bicentennial might be a mess, took her shoes off in her sitting room and declared she was amazed at the joy she encountered. She, too, let a little partisan fervor seep out, wondering in private if people did not understand that her husband had helped things along...
...screen as a budding hoofer in Nickelodeon, Director Peter Bogdanovich's new film about 1920s Hollywood. Not to be outdone by Co-Star Jane Hitchcock, who once studied with Choreographer George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, Tatum took a six-week crash course in tap dancing before stepping into her new role. Sums up Tatum: "I guess it's much more practical for me to be a hoofer than a pitcher...
...manufacturers against a possible onslaught of lawsuits. Few medical authorities believe the vaccine itself is dangerous, but they point out that with so many shots being given, some reactions are inevitable. That would be true, as one drug spokesman put it, "even if we vaccinated the whole population with tap water." Worried about defending against many frivolous suits, insurance companies have refused to provide coverage for the manufacturers. So has Congress, although at week's end some compromise was being sought-perhaps legislation that would limit damages anyone could collect from drug companies...
...balance. For example, Bankers Trust Depositor H.G. Fowler, 68, lived with his wife in a mobile home for 18 years while they saved to buy their own house. They did, only six days before the lawsuit was filed against Bankers Trust, and now worry that if they cannot tap their savings accounts, their Social Security income will not be enough to cover notes coming due on the house. Mississippi banks have offered to consider loans to stranded depositors in the S&Ls, but the Fowlers are not reassured. Says the despondent Mr. Fowler: "We have worked and saved and done...