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...chained to a chair and must escape before a lit trail of gunpowder burns its way back to a 'bomb that will explode in his face. Not to mention the Board of Death, a contraption to which Bigelow is chained and bound with ropes. Connected to a three-minute timer, a door fitted with 8-in, steel knives will swing shut on Bigelow if he does not escape in time. He usually does, Bigelow also performs an escape sealed inside a heavy plastic bag with a poison snake...
Then it happened. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a particularly drunk old-timer, the type who spends his days going to the wakes of his "life-long friends" and his nights telling strangers what dirty so-and-sos they were for not leaving him anything in their wills. Definitely someone to avoid, but as avoiding a drunk at an Irish bar is about as easy as outswimming a tiger shark, I knew I was a goner...
...discount). The Betamax, which can be attached to any TV, records on a $16 cartridge one hour's worth of color (or black and white) programming-either off a channel being watched or another channel. So watch what you please, go out when you like-setting the handy timer-and replay at your leisure the shows you loved or you missed. Terrific...
BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...
...unfairly benefit employers who are going to increase their payrolls anyway, tax break or no, and would encourage the wrong kind of hiring-since a company could cut its taxes just as much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding a full-timer at $8,400. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, adds that the Ullman proposal would give disproportionate tax relief to companies in rapidly expanding areas like the Sunbelt but deny help to needy businesses in areas like New England. Carter's version of an employment...