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...Consumer Price Index, the most widely watched measure of inflation, was getting out of whack with today's American life-style. Last adjusted in 1978, the Labor Department's so-called market basket of goods and services was too heavily weighted with such items as hard liquor, red meat and tobacco, all of which the typical American now consumes less of than a decade ago. So last week when the Government released its January CPI figure, the number reflected a reapportioned mix of goods and services to measure more accurately inflation for the typical consumer...
...your expectation that something worthwhile is about to happen, then disappoints you by dropping the theme or hiding behind a convenient cliche. The wasted talents of the director, cast, designers and crew make the spectacle all the more pitiful. Sweettable never bores you; it just makes you want to whack the playwright a few times with a Riverside Shakespeare...
...telling us," grumps a congressional partisan. The President uses a little list to keep his subjects straight when he talks to members of Congress. But he still gets the subjects out of whack, tells anecdotes that don't fit, isn't sure where the agenda stands or even what is on it. "He sometimes seems a bit disoriented," claims a Senator...
...Whack! Bam! Snipe! Antoine (Michel Blanc) and Monique (Miou-Miou) bicker like dogs in hate. The beleaguered husband and wife are about to kill each other, in front of everybody at their favorite Paris dive, when a stranger named Bob (Gerard Depardieu) joins in the fray. Changes their lives too. This pansexual thief takes the couple on his heists and woos them both before vacating the premises. He takes Monique to bed but pines indefatigably for mousy Antoine. Unashamed by his voracious sexual appetite, Bob overwhelms the poor little guy. Who could resist such declarations of ardor? They become lovers...
...Disgusting Colloquialism: "She drew in a great, hitching breath and hocked a remarkably large looey onto the top of his head." The Brand-Name Maneuver: "Here sits a man with Bass Weejuns on his feet and Calvin Klein underwear to cover his ass." The Comic-Strip Effect: "Whack-whack-whack-whack -- And suddenly it was in his hands, a great living thing that pumped and pulsed against his palms, pushing them back and forth. (nonononononono)." The Burlesque Locution: " 'Good ahfternyoon, deah lady,' Richie said in his best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need of three tickey-tickies...