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...Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes, the director brings up soppy music and goes for the jugular. When the champ, in despair, discards a Teddy bear he had planned to give his son, Zeffirelli actually cuts to a closeup of the abandoned toy...
...behind this comic madness is the product of a comfortable but solitary upbringing. The last child of a Ford Motor Co. vice president, Williams grew up in Chicago, the Detroit suburbs and Tiburon, near San Francisco. When left alone, he summoned up his own world, maneuvering his toy soldiers and cloning his own versions of wacky Jonathan Winters characterizations like Maude Frickert. After two stabs at college in California, he moved to New York City to study acting. For spending money, he and a partner did white-faced comedy mime in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, occasionally matching...
THREE YEARS AGO, when Birch Bayh, Morris Udall, Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson, and a host of other Democrats tramped through snowy New England in search of elusive primary votes, the Harvard Democratic Club worked harder than a toy salesman at Christmas. This year, the lack of a national campaign has caused its members to turn on each other, and now all involved agree that the results have been just short of disastrous...
...demonstrators were arrested. Two members of the party's youth wing hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to the holy city of Benares with 132 people aboard; their effort to exchange the hostages for Gandhi's freedom fizzled when their weapons turned out to be a toy pistol and a ball disguised as a grenade...
...movies, farming, cattle raising, equipment leasing, and oil and gas drilling. In these deals people now may deduct as losses only the amount that they had personally put up or had at risk. The 1978 tax law extends that at-risk rule to investments in coal mining, master recordings, toy molds, lithograph stones and a host of other rapidly depreciable properties, many of which shelter promoters had dreamed up since the '76 crackdown. In addition the IRS has been taking a much harder look at so-called partnerships lately and reclassifying a growing number of them as associations...