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Like those two characters in a Jerusalem Post cartoon, most Israelis last week seemed to be exploring a new economic landscape with little joy, a dash of mordant wit and a surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer...
...laying all my cards on the table -- I'd like to thank Columbia's Leo de Lion, who picks the weekly Ivy contests from Morningside Heights, for presenting me with the 1977 Leo de Lion award, given annually to that person whose Ivy football prognostications and wit come closest to matching...
...assortment of pimps, prostitutes, pornographers and eccentrics who seem cast from what the author has elsewhere referred to as the "freak-death pages" of the daily papers. They are a small army that threatens to trip on its tangled plot lines. Yet Dunne manages to get them through with wit, vitality, affection and that uncommon commodity, good writing. -R.Z.S...
...York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach: "Annie Hall" goes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhatten aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
Costumes are appropriately early '60s-ish. The choreography, done by Patty Woo, lacks flair in the opening scene, but picks up for the musical numbers, which are staged with wit and aplomb, and the sprawling deaths of Roy and Larsen are limericks, if not poetry, in motion...