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...same: wicked, chesty baritone schemes to murder or domineer others as air-head, goldilocks daughter falls in love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly peasants, and a trio of disco-dancing suits of armor...
Reagan uses his frown and his smile at the same time. He is at once affable and concerned, hopeful and worried. He leans forward on his elbows, cuts the air with long fingers. No coffee, no cigarettes, no low-calorie root beer help him through the meeting. He is such a collection of contradictions. He is Hollywood and the new politics; but there he is, talking about the economics that was taught around the turn of the century: business slumps were what happened when Government began taking too much of the people's money in taxes...
...working at the Los Angeles Law firm of Gibson and Dunn, Embree says he misses the team aspect of college sports most. "It was very nice to be involved in a team where you could root for the other guys," he says. "The track team was one of my most enjoyable experiences at Harvard...
Some would overlook the cause of today's crisis and have us believe that an even greater government role in the market-place could provide a solution; they suggest price-controls as one alternative to Reagan's plans. Far from curing the root causes of inflation, price controls temporarily ease its symptoms at the cost of each individual's loss of economic freedom. When price controls are removed, the economy will return to at least its former, possibly worse, inflationary condition...
...what do you do? The root of the problem is that the teaching fellow is no longer an undergraduate and not yet a professor. The answer is to remember that he once was an undergraduate and soon will be a professor. This is a subtle distinction. But the point is that the teaching fellow stands somewhere between the class and the professor. In the course of the semester the two of them are going to have to come together--and that means they're headed in the teaching fellow's direction...