Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none any more perilous than its eight-month-long labor negotiations with the United Automobile Workers. Away from the bargaining table, the company has made headway against major roadblocks. Last month it announced earnings for the three months ending Dec. 31 of $4,500,000 (plus a special tax recovery of $19,200,000), its first quarterly profit in 18 months. Its auto sales for the current model-year have been running about 10% ahead of last year's levels. Encouraging as those signs may be, however, A.M.C. knows that its recovery prospects could be scuttled by either...
...hero, John Morley (Zero Mostel) is, by self-definition, "a flaming faggot." He is also a zany, successful author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
...first tax advantage nearly fells Morley. Spaatz tells him that it would be economically advisable for him to marry-and the helpful tax man even supplies a woman: the city's leading whore (Chris Richard). Morley is aghast. "To marry a woman would be a betrayal of my identity," he whines as he minces about in an elephantine parody of homosexuality. But marry he does, and he is transformed by Chayefskyean legerdemain into a happy, prospective father. To his considerable grief, the child is stillborn. Meantime, with his tax man spurring him on, Morley has acquired a corporate identity...
...legs go rigid. Sitting mutely in a chair as if immobilized by a stroke, he seems to live only with his eyes, which roll in a fine frenzy as his latest financial coups are related to him by the omnipresent Spaatz. The time inevitably comes to get divorced for tax purposes, and then Morley kills himself-for tax purposes. In a final scene of immense sadness and gravity, Mostel performs the rite of hara-kiri with a pair of garden shears. As Japanese music plays offstage, he achieves a remarkable blend of Oriental serenity and intensity, altogether his most memorable...
...author specifically attempts to establish Caesar's contemporaneity. "He wrestled with the problems of the cities," writes White. "He cut the relief rolls from 320,000 to 150,000 citizens. . . He tackled credit and restored some commercial stability to the system ravaged by his own wars; put through tax reforms; wrestled with the problems of labor and wages; and began to examine what we today call the problems of urban environment. . . He tried to reorganize the crowded city traffic that choked the streets of Rome, and, of course, like all men dealing with urban traffic ever since, failed...