Word: year-end
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...innocence through every sordid experience, often embracing rarefied forms of madness and an early, spectacular death. Playing the suffering saint can make and shape an actress's career (like Garbo's); it can win fans, raves and Oscars. This year the only sure shots for Best Actress nominations are two more divine masochists in dour year-end movies. Meryl Streep incarnates a tragic Polish heroine in an adaptation of William Styron's bestselling novel Sophie's Choice, and Jessica Lange slips under the fair, glistening skin of '30s Movie Star Frances Farmer in Frances...
...Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine; and Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi. These four films will be released for selective engagements in a few cities in the hope of garnering media attention and year-end critics' awards. But there will be less time and space available for serious pictures in competition with the inevitable Christmas hits. In shooting for the moon with these ambitious films, Hollywood may end up shooting itself in the foot...
...offering the details to public scrutiny, the bank at least made it plain that it is not in any danger of collapse, or indeed of a serious cash squeeze. Losses on bad loans are expected to increase, but healthy loans will still enable the bank to turn a year-end profit that many analysts have been predicting will reach at least $125 million. That is far more in earnings than many of Continental's customers can count...
...Administration is right in contending that the jobless rate will start falling in the spring, toward a year-end total of around 7.5%, Reagan may escape severe political damage. But if the rate rises into double digits by summer, the President's program will come under severe attack during a congressional session certain to be dominated by jockeying for partisan advantage in the November elections. -By George J. Church. Reported by David Beckwlth and Douglas Brew/Washington
...economy has serious problems. Inflation, currently running at 15%, has been worsened by the government's new minimum-wage level, which hiked the lowest pay for mostly black farm and domestic workers by 66% and increased wages for commercial and industrial employees by 23.5%. A year-end dry spell may cost the country as much as 30% of its current maize crop. A shortage of gasoline has been exacerbated by hoarding and by disruptions of pipe lines and rail shipments by the raids of antigovernment guerrillas who operate from neighboring Mozambique and are reportedly aided by South Africa...