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Four screenwriters are credited with House Calls, and they do make with the jokes. There are marriage jokes and baseball jokes and drag jokes and hospital jokes. The worst lines are about sex; this may be the first film in years that stoops to making cracks about water beds. The funniest scenes-and there should have been more of them-take on the American medical profession. In the rude manner of Paddy Chayefsky's Hospital, House Calls suggests that doctors spend more time thinking about tax shelters and fancy cars than surgical procedures or professional ethics. The film...
...statehouses, there have been some dramatic turnarounds. Only three years ago, New York State faced a serious threat that a city insolvency would drag the state into bankruptcy too. Now the state expects a surplus of $360 million this year and is debating how much to cut taxes. Michigan last November projected a deficit of $78.4 million in its 1978 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30. Now it expects a $68.4 million surplus, and Governor William Milliken is proposing reductions in property and income taxes. Budget Director Gerald Miller agreed with a reporter that the estimate of a deficit...
...1970s; the red ink in recession-struck 1975 totaled more than $6 billion. But last year states and localities rolled up an aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds that are used to pay pensions, workmen's compensation and temporary disability benefits. That money should...
Ross's masterpiece was Pinehurst, which he laboriously molded out of the sand hills of North Carolina by using mule-drawn drag-pans. Overnight. Pinehurst became the mecca of American golf. The idea of building a resort at Pinehurst was the brainstorm of another Bostonian, the soda-fountain magnate James W. Tufts. On Monday, April 10, the Harvard golfers open the new season with a dual match against Tufts and Amherst
Likewise, just as act two begins to drag, it is saved by Josh Kratka's walk-on as M. Purgon, Argan's doctor. Looking and acting like Dr. Frankenstein, Kratka devastated the audience while cursing Argan for refusing an enema. With his slapstick antics he stole the scene (and very possibly the show) from everyone...