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...parades on one of a dozen color TVs in the house. He invites us to join him. The dogs, meanwhile, are about to be fed. On an enormous expanse of counter the housekeeper has arranged an awesome array of king-size doggie dishes each of which she proceeds to load with at least two cans of Alpo. The dogs all stand around the kitchen, watching contentedly. As she places the dishes on the floor, each dog pairs up with its own dish and the room fills with the sound of happy mastication. Everytime a dog finishes, it is rewarded with...
There's an oddly balanced load of ideology here, and a few other touches that are not right for the Thunderbird-and-chicken-wings film this seems to be. When the Lonette McKee character agrees to live with Leroy, for instance, she plays the scene with Mediterranean fire in her eye and makes him promise never to sleep with another woman. That's not Los Angeles in 1977, and sure enough, it turns out that Which Way Is Up? is an adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1972 comedy The Seduction of Mimi, which is set in Sicily...
...crowded Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos, where $2 billion changes hands each year, security guards crawl along steel catwalks and watch for cheaters through one-way ceiling mirrors. Near by, cashiers match bingo winners against a computerized list of more than 4,000 cards. Players who switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables and slot machines is counted under the watchful eye of closed-circuit television cameras. To prevent overstaffing in the casinos...
...secondary education tends to be much more grueling than the U.S. version. Primary school ends at age eleven or twelve, when students enter a college d'en-seignement secondaire-roughly equivalent to a junior high school. During the first year, they shoulder a set 27-hour-per-week load: five hours of French, three each of math, a foreign language, history, geography, civic education and economics, two hours of aesthetics and two of technical education. Later, they begin a second foreign language; the first one is typically studied for seven years...
...stiffer penalties at the state level are expected to do much good. Buttlegging has a lot going for it: a touch of high adventure, the allure of beating taxes, and profit. Nor are Mob connections needed to make a go of it. An individual entrepreneur with a van can load up in North Carolina or Virginia, where the state tax is only 2? or 2½? a pack, head north on Interstate 95 (now known as Tobacco Road) and sell the cigarettes at a high profit hi New York and Connecticut, where state and local taxes are much higher...