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...decline of inflation has given a welcome boost to British exports, which during 1977 significantly increased their share of the world market. As exports have risen and the pound has steadied, foreign capital has once again begun to flow into Britain, converting a 1976 balance-of-payments deficit of $6.9 billion into a surplus of $10.3 billion in the first nine months of 1977 (including both current transactions and capital movements...
...Swiss francs. Since January the dollar has lost 22% against the yen, 19% against the Swiss franc and 11% against the mark. Nor has the once mighty greenback been dropping only against those traditionally strong currencies; lately it has also lost ground against the anemic French franc and British pound...
...HUNTER S. Thompson weights in with yet another of his inimitable tracts of Gonzo journalism, a rambling tale of how he learned of the whereabouts of his erstwhile companion Oscar Zeta Acosta, the 300-pound Samoan attorney of Fear and Loathing in Vegas fame. It turns out that Acosta is in fact a crazy Chicano militant who has traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak...
...goal line. Ritchie packs his scenes with slapstick asides, including Korov the place-kicker whose only lines are in Russian; these are cruder than Altman but at times exhilaratingly funny. But Ritchie still doesn't know how to use actors--he should hope six-foot eight, 275-pound Doug Atkinson, the prototype for Jenkins' defensive end T.J. Lambert, doesn't see this movie. Ritchie's biggest mistake might have been firing Ring Lardner Jr. as the scenarist. Lardner's credits include M.A.S.H. and he probably genetically knows more about pro athletes than Ritchie. Kristofferson is woefully in need of direction...
...young poet since has so dazzled his peers. When Schwartz's first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, appeared in 1938, Critic Allen Tate called it "the first real innovation that we've had since Eliot and Pound." T.S. Eliot himself was "much impressed...