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FLABBY, OTIOSE, AND even worse, whimsical: labels that might be affixed to an economy increasingly mired in lassitude, beset by the twin problems of inflation and recession. As if those dual difficulties were not sufficient to twist minds from Washington to Cambridge, the latest productivity figures show an alarmingly small rise--indicating that the most jaded and chronic criticisms may in fact be borne out. It's crisis time, and the crescent encompasses a region less foreign than the Near East...
Assume for a moment that Director John Landis means to subvert the twin genres of musical comedy and action melodrama. He fails there, since periodically the film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis seems no surer of his visual style than he does of his movie's tone, so he tries everything: shots angled from a dog's-or a god's-eye view, eerily lighted special effects, more dancers, more extras, more noise, more cars and car crashes. Alas...
...hard line throughout his political career, and based his nearly successful challenge to Gerald Ford in 1976 largely on opposition to détente. Now he feels that the mood of the country has at last caught up with him. Reagan has said over and over that the twin pillars of his foreign policy will be a greatly increased defense and a strengthened economy. He has refused to put a price tag on the buildup he favors. But it would be very high, for Reagan believes that the U.S. is on the losing end of a "widening...
Basketball's twin titans face off in the finals...
When he left Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, N.Y., where he played with twin brother Michael, now completing a fine career as a Brown defenseman, the versatile middie had already established himself as one of the top schoolboy prospects in the nation. College coaches, Harvard's Bob Scalise incuded, predicted that he would make the transition to their game with ease...