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...Theater. The initial scenes of "Master Harold"...and the Boys are amiable, even cozy. It is a rainy late afternoon, and two blacks are tidying up the St. Georges Park Tea Room, a modest luncheonette. The elder and brighter, Sam (Zakes Mokae), putters about while Willie (Danny Glover), a simpler soul, mops the floor. The two interrupt their labors from time to time to polish up fox-trot and waltz steps for a much anticipated dance contest...
...year-old from Needham, Mass., sticks to simpler capers: copying Atari game cartridges (retail value: $12.95 to $49.95) and floppy discs containing programs worth up to $250. He trades them with other copyists. Says he blithely: "This is illegal, but we are basically honest people. I don't know anyone who doesn't pirate software...
...connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around like a box of chocolates, help yourself, choose your favorite flavor." Even with anarchist chap pies on the loose, life was a whole lot simpler in those days...
Reruns are sustained commercially by an audience of adults as well as curious children. Some of the audience's affection is only for the familiar. But some, plainly, is for a world that seemed simpler and safer-if not always in reality, then at least in the idealized views of TV programmers of the day. It is probably no accident that the Christian Broadcasting Network's over-the-air and cable services rely heavily on wholly secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about...
With all these new ventures well under way, Bloch is not overly concerned about an effort going on at the IRS to redesign completely Form 1040 and make it much simpler. Though a more fathomable tax form might cost Bloch customers, he readily admits that Americans should learn how to prepare their returns. Says he: "There's nothing like getting into your own tax return for teaching you where your money is going." Following that advice, Bloch was tackling his own tax return last week...