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...inexperienced English professor, who joins his father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns how to "be a man," so that by the end of the film he is suave, confident and married, and heard uttering such understatements as "This has been a tremendous...
...foil to Fine's growth from wimp to "man," the character of Mr. Eddie degenerates from a giant among men (Kiel stands over seven feet tall) to the movie's only loser, an ultimately weak and impotent "non-man." This question of what is and is not a man, posed repeatedly throughout the movie by him and a variety of minor characters unifies the storyline and raises it above the level of simple fluff...
...center of the storm is bushy-browed, Greek-born George Barkouras, 43, who arrived in the city in 1971 with $1,000 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Kiel in West Germany...
...current account deficit, which includes trade of both goods and services, reached a record $15.4 billion; inflation was 5.2%, an unacceptable level by West German standards. The Bonn government is therefore slowing the growth of spending and curbing the money supply. Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, expects no growth in his country this year, following a 1% decline in 1980. Though inflation should fall to 3.5% by the end of 1981, unemployment will rise from its present rate...
...take over the world after he destroys all intelligent life by spraying the planet with a deadly extracted nerve gas from a rare South American orchid. Drax surrounds himself with luxury, not to mention an Asian Martial arts expert, two hungry Dobermans, and steel-mouthed giant Jaws (Richard Kiel) who pursued Bond through The Spy Who Loved Me with as much dispatch as Goldfinger's hat-tossing valet, Odd Job. Bond neatly thwarts all of Drax's attempts to "see that some harm comes to him," which include an out-of-control centerfuge, hidden snipers, and of course, Jaws...