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...adult heroes in the book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...
...interest rates on loans, they can do it without having the same person serve as a director of both. On the other hand, insurance companies in particular have been anxious to put bankers on their boards, claiming that the bankers have more expert knowledge of what loans are wise; prohibiting the practice, they say, would deny policyholders the benefits of shared financial expertise. That contention points up the greatest problem for federal trustbusters. They deeply believe that concentrations of economic power injure everyone, but, as the antitrust laws are now written, they find themselves frequently unable to do more than...
...Reds scored five of their runs in the fourth and fifth innings. In the fourth, Sox starter Rick Wise walked Tony Perez. Perez then stole second and came home on a homer by Johnny Bench...
...fifth Wise gave up back to back home runs by Concepcion and Geronimo and, after striking out Cincinnati reliever Pat Darcy, gave up a triple to Pete Rose. At this point, Wise was replaced by Jim Burton, who gave up a sacrifice fly to Joe Morgan that scored Rose. Starter Wise had only given up four hits, but three of them were home runs and one was a triple...
...Etienne-Jules Marcy-multiple exposures that bridged the gap between still photography and the movie cam era. His pastel studies of his wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay's disk paintings of 1913. At least Kupka believed so, and remained bitter about Delaunay till the end of his life. "Exhibit, why?" he demanded of a visitor...