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...attitude is explored in Ponicsan's novel An Unmarried Man. Ben Pleasants, a woodcarver who has a smidgen of fame due to his profile in People magazine, jilts his wife because he wants to really fall in love at least once before he dies. So he moves out on spouse and daughter, 8, and, sure enough, Lupe, the woman he's been waiting for, conveniently moves into the apartment over his new abode. This infuriates his ex-wife, who then demands almost everything they've owned, down to his last unworked hunk of wood, which he fashions into a copy...
...need an excuse to gambol the first weekend of Reading Period, try to trace the Moliere influences). Scholarly substance? Come now (though if you insist, this was the primary source for both Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's "Barber of Seville"). Profundity? Not a smidgen, I hope. But for you brain-becobwebbed hordes, here's energy and elegance, a jewel-box set and pure Goya costumes, zip and charm and beguiling idiocy... tonight through Sunday at 8; call 864-2630 for ticket information...
...stock market, which is hurt by rising interest rates, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 10.70 last week, to a close of 823.91. In the bond market, a $200 million offering of 33-year debentures by Michigan Bell Telephone sold briskly at a 9.6% interest rate, a smidgen below the 9.7% rate on a Bell System issue on Sept. 17. Rates at auctions of three-month Treasury bills, a bellwether of the market for short-term money, have fluctuated between 6¼% and 6½% for the past three weeks and are not likely to move above that range soon...
...sharpest drop in more than 23 years. Productivity, or output per man-hour of the nation's workers, skidded at an annual rate of 3% in the third quarter. Falling productivity pushes up employers' labor costs and puts more upward pressure on prices. There was a smidgen of good news too: First National City Bank of New York cut its prime rate on business loans another quarter point, to 10.75%. But taken together, the week's indicators sketched a distressingly clear picture of a rapidly weakening economy...
...Renta promises to go to "all lengths for spring and summer," but is flinging caution-and leftover minis-aside for a fall collection destined to be 100% pure midi. That will leave him two seasons behind James Galanos, whose current collection shows not so much as a smidgen of knee. Says he for the midi: "It was unavoidable. The time was right, and women are ready." Mrs. Richard Nixon appears to be, anyway. On a shopping trip to New York last week, she selected several knee-covering styles (one of them a genuine midi by Geoffrey Beene, was judged...