Word: backwardation
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...clumsy caricature, so there is not much the actors can do. Carrie Snodgress is good enough as the bedeviled Tina, and Frank Langella contributes many moments of force and subtlety to his boisterous role. But Richard Benjamin, one of the standouts of Catch-22, takes a giant step backward. The part is a ludricrous stereotype; Benjamin plays it-or is directed by Frank Perry to play it-like a buffoon...
Justice Department officials said they built their case by working backward from the rubble of a New York City town house, blown up in an accidental explosion last March after it had been turned into a bomb factory by the Weathermen. According to the indictment, the Flint conspirators (and others the grand jury could not identify) formed a central committee to direct "focals"-cells of three or four activists-in the bombing of "police and other civic, business and educational buildings throughout the country...
...sign. At about 11:05 the President strikes his memorable double-V victory pose. Saxe insists that his watches are "in no way meant to be derogatory." He does admit that "hidden political comment" may be found in the Reagan model. The numerals on the face run backward...
...largely unemployed, introspective and often depressed; their bodies and psyches are in the process of change, and they are heavy users of drugs. If they want to marry, their families tend to disapprove. Both groups are obsessed with time. Youth, though, figures its passage from birth; the aged calculate backward from their death day. They sometimes shorten the wait: the suicide rate among elderly men is far higher than that of any other age group...
Will President Nixon have the courage to veto the trade act that reaches his desk? His record in fighting for free trade is not impressive. On the other hand, he must realize that a great leap backward to the protectionism of the early 1930s would be disastrous. Two former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter Heller and Raymond Saulnier, last week warned that such regression would be highly inflationary. Competition from inexpensive imports is one of the few forces that have moderated U.S. prices...