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...stock prices are a leading indicator, as they are often considered to be, then the U.S. economy is in for a roller coaster ride. After starting from a low of 889 in January, the most widely watched gauge of the market, the Dow Jones industrial average, has thumped along like an excited heartbeat, often surging up or down by 15 or more points in a day. During the first half of the year, the general trend had been up, but now a new pattern is emerging: in each of the last two weeks the Dow has spurted...
Perhaps because he is a gambler himself, Author Guetti provides Hatcher with a complete metamorphosis from professor to high roller. When last seen he is heading south in a Cadillac for more action.-Lance Morrow
Developer David Santini, 39, a wealthy soil engineer, claims that his plastic slope is the "best artificial track in the world." It is covered with white polyethylene molded into bristly triangles and slick circles. Before taking off, skiers coat their skis with oil from a spinning roller. Although runs down the 1,200-ft. competition course reach speeds of 60 m.p.h., the synthetic snow seems unquestionably safer than the natural variety; no one has yet broken so much as a finger...
...characters come out and sing clever rock parodies, using Moliere's lyrics and music by Michael Gury, Ed Zwick, and Mark Hunter. Argan adds up his medical bills on an old-fashioned adding machine (meanwhile writing down the totals with a quill pen). Toinette makes her first appearance on roller skates, and after a while takes them off and goes through the rest of the play in shoes. The daughter's lover, Cleante, comes to the house carrying the sheet music for Love Story--and so on, providing an occasional laugh, but destroying any kind of comic consistency. The audience...
...produced and directed (the only problem on opening night was a door that just wouldn't stay shut). What it lacks, simply, is the great acting necessary to make it come alive for modern audiences. The acting at the Loeb just doesn't quite measure up, and all the roller skates and adding machines in the world can't cover up for that...