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...movie is at its sharpest when the action moves from the Upper West Side apartment house where the hero and heroine live to the theatrical demimonde where they work; the theater is a milieu that Ross, an ex-Broadway choreographer, and Simon know uncannily well. In the film's funniest sequence, Elliott opens off-off-Broadway in an outlandishly homosexual production of Shakespeare's Richard III; Ross captures the texture of a disastrous opening night in all its horror, and Dreyfuss's flaming king proves the nuttiest send-up of bad acting since Dick Shawn created...
...Night at the Opera. In 1934 Chico Marx, an inveterate bridge player, sat down at the table with one of the sharpest cards ever to hit Hollywood: Irving Thalberg, the boy wonder producer, whose career inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel "The Last Tycoon." Thalberg's gambling ability marked him as the man to revive the ailing career of the three Marx brothers (Zeppo, having gotten fed up with his role as straight man, had left the team to become an agent; when Thalberg asked if the Marxist troika expected the same salary they had received...
...sharpest critic is Wisconsin Democrat Henry S. Reuss, the scholarly chairman of the House Banking Committee. In a letter hand-carried by an aide to Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns two weeks ago, Reuss charges that the board "has lost control of the money supply." Reuss perceives at least two dangers to the economy: 1) "a real threat of nourishing inflation in 1978," 2) a deeper stock market slump, because investors may sell shares out of fear that the board will have to slam on the brakes suddenly...
...sharpest debates occured in early June, when the union discovered the contract--which they were then on the verge of signing--called for biannual physical examinations for policemen. The Police Association argued that the twice-yearly checkups were an effort to force older patrolmen off the force, while University administrators claimed the once-every-two-years checkups were a routine precaution. It all boiled down to semantics (biannual can mean twice a year or once every two years, depending on your dictionary), but the contract still hasn't been signed...
...technique apparently works, for Carew's eye is one of the sharpest in baseball. He spots the ball-its speed and rotation-as soon as it leaves the pitcher's fingertips. Says he: "I can tell by the rotation whether it's a curve, slider or fastball." What is more, Carew can often actually see the ball hit his bat. Kansas City Outfielder Amos Otis has a hitter's respect for the Carew eye: "Trying to sneak a pitch past him is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." Says the New York Yankees...