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...customers largely by area code 800 telephone numbers, many investors have begun patronizing the hundreds of small discount brokers that have sprung up in storefronts and lobbies. Banks also are getting into the act, buying discount brokers and offering their services. Last week, for example, the Federal Reserve permitted Chase Manhattan to acquire Rose & Co. Investment Brokers. BankAmerica and Citicorp already own brokers...
...make the U.S. recovery self-destruct-to say nothing of the baneful effects of high American interest rates, and the concomitant strength of the U.S. dollar, on foreign economies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The speed of the recovery indicated by the latest unemployment figures, says Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist of Chase Econometrics, "puts pressure on the financial markets earlier than expected." One early sign of trouble: new-home sales dropped 2.9% in June, apparently because of higher mortgage interest costs for buyers...
Houseman never thinks of himself as an actor, but late in his career he is persuaded to play Professor Kingsfield, the law-school curmudgeon, in the film The Paper Chase and then in a subsequent TV series. At the Academy Awards the following year he waits "with clenched buttocks for some goon lady to open an envelope." The prize propels him into yet another subcareer in his 70s, acting in films and commercials...
Another disappointment is the movie debut of model/goddess Christie Brinkley as the temptress in the red Ferrari who leads Chase into all kinds of trouble. The Brinkley character--if you could call it that--is an obvious rip-off of the Suzanne Sommers' blonde in American Grafitti and has about as much personality as--well--a Sports Illustrated bathing suit spread. Brinkley--who is so sexy on paper--is embarrassing on celluloid, because, as simple as her part...
...Chase is another story altogether. Given a script for the first time that is not inane, he does not have to resort to his own antics to get the laugh. The performance is his best since he left Saturday Night because he plays a character--not himself. This is not a Chevy Chase movie, as were his past star vehicles with dwarves and dogs and the like. If Chase lacks a distinctive comic persona, his schlep routine served him well as the cause of his success. But it has also revealed his limitations as an actor. When Chase's characters...