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Into this quiet disarray bursts Randall (Jake Lamar), a schizophrenic, self-proclaimed "young gentleman of color" (this is set in 1961); an impossibly jive, cool dude who proceeds to play a tense game of thrust and parry with Mr. Glas, the store-owner, (David Reiffel). As the two are gradually getting a feel for one another, in bursts a young Jewish girl (everyone seems to burst into Slow Dance) on her way to have an abortion and about to faint...
...attempts at teaching youth via fairy-book change of time, place, and character, and captivating adults via snatches of humor, the movie's thrust falls somewhere in the dangerous middle ground. Gilliam was Python's sordid animator in Time Bandits and often uses people as if they were cartoons. There are many violent scenes worthy of Tom and Jerry or Wile E. Coyote except with live subjects as characters smash into walls, eat rats, and explode. It's bad enough when Elmer Fudd blows up and survives unscathed, but the violence here is too up-front to be humorous...
Accordingly, the nation's thrust toward energy conservation-characterized by Jimmy Carter as the "moral equivalent of war"-has begun to abate. Demand for oil is once again on the rise. During the first half of 1981, oil demand was down 6%, compared with the same period a year earlier. But during the summer, the rate of decline began to slow markedly, and consumption in the third quarter ran only 1% lower than 1980 levels. Even before summer began, U.S. motorists were logging about 3% more miles behind the wheel than...
...festive occasion in Egypt, the annual commemoration of the day in 1973 when Egyptian forces stormed across the Suez Canal. Although Israel ultimately recovered to turn the October War in its favor, Egypt's thrust through Israeli defenses in the Sinai purged the country of the humiliation it had suffered in three previous wars with the Jewish state. For most Egyptians, who would watch the parade on television, the occasion also signaled the start of a holiday celebrating Abraham's sacrifice...
Administration officials deny that its economic advisers are speaking in disparate voices. "There is a major, underlying core of agreement on the program that has been there all along," says Martin Anderson, White House adviser for domestic affairs. "No one disagrees with the broad thrust." Adds Weidenbaum: "We're all in tune. There are no ideologues among...