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Romantic Comedy is one long credibility gap. As comedy it is flush with flip badinage but unilluminated by genuine humor. As romance it is a verbal sparring match with mighty few emo tional clinches. There is no discernible chemical affinity between these two antiseptic people...
...role of Mama has not been written or developed. It is not even scribbled in. However, the mark of a professional is to be able to make something out of nothing. Instead, Ullmann lapses into a series of alternating smiles and frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly expressive face, particularly her eyes, have been her fortune. A deeper defect is that she projects no wifely warmth or maternal affections. She treats Papa (George Hearn) like...
Carter and his aides apparently feel that Billy has been under so much emo tional pressure lately that any fraternal rebuke might provoke even worse outbursts. Said one aide: "The President has been terribly upset about the whole thing, about his brother going to pot . . ." There were indeed reports last week that Billy was brooding, jittery and deeply despondent in the hospital in Americus, Ga., where he is confined for bronchitis. But his physician, Dr. Paul Broun, insisted that Billy was not "seriously ill." Said he: "Seriously ill means it could lead to his demise...
Some $2.4 billion is now spent annually in the U.S. on the "batteries" - 37 mil lion hospital admissions at an average of $66 per patient. By making them op tional, Blue Cross-Blue Shield ? could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Instituting the economies will f not be easy. As Walter J. McNerney, national Blue Cross-Blue 1 Shield president, explains, "Doctors must change their practices." Trouble is, in recent years the trend has been toward more tests. "Fearing malpractice suits, many physicians defensively order diagnostic tests simply to get them on the record even if they provide...
Across the land this week, millions of these marvelous trees are being bought, carted home, decorated, admired. At the White House the Carter family has three trees. A 30-foot spruce, lighted last week, graces the Ellipse and serves as the na tional tree.. A 20-foot fir, surrounded by antique toys and a miniature house set up by Amy, dominates the Blue Room. Another tree stands in the upstairs living quarters. But on Christmas morning, Amy and her family expect to be in Plains, where they will celebrate beside a tree cut this week by the President himself...