Brudnoy's Index

...Profitability in this industry /s higher than in most other businesses...

...9 The Sting...

...Gatsbyis lush, true to Fitzgerald's brilliant novel of 1920s decadence, and mark it well: we're in for at least a year of Gatsbymania...

...Chips gone to a South Carolina sea island to teach "colored babies," as the fierce lady principal says...

...firms are responsible for two-thirds of the 868 major medicines brought out between 1940 and 1969 and to which millions of Americans owe their lives...

...Neither problem can be solved unless profits, as determined by free and competitive markets, are allowed to fulfill their curcial role of adjusting output to the ever-changing demands of society...

...And because it is, drug companies are able to invest heavily in the research needed to develop health-benefiting and life-saving products...

...They all die in the end, and the film is dreadful, but compared to last month's Billy ~vo Hats, of the same general theme, it is princely...

...b) Unlike wages and taxes, profits often fluctuate widely from one year to another --beth up and down...

...c) Profits and jobs tend to move together...

...When they increase, more hiring is done...

...He's now shaggy and beatific and reborn as Baba Ram Dass...

...You cain't hardly emerge with a dry eye, honey-chile, it's that maudlin, but Voight is vibrant, the youngsters are the promise of Afro-Americanism and absolutely wonderful, and the dilemma of the individual versus encrusted societal regimentation gets another go-around, not entirely witless...

...9 Where the Lilies Bloom: See, you take TV's The Waltons, by Earl Hamner, Jr...

...9 The Spikes Gang...

...The cyclical recovery in corporate earnings during 1972 and 1973 was largely responsible for the best kept economic secret of beth years-the creation of a record six million new jobs...

...I t should instead be praised for reducing the average unit price of prescription drugs over the past decade, in contrast with what has happened to the price of almost everything else...

...Most of what the public hears is coming from one side...

...Lois Chiles incomparably gorgeous as Jordan Baker...

...I mean, just one more about the copper duo (here called Batman and, uh hub, Robin) picking their way through police corruption...

...It was net until late 1972 that they began to move back to normal...

...rm just about to run out and get me a pink rag of a suit too---and a cream-colored open car...

...Boa Arthur zings as Marne's buddy Vera Charles, the sets are deliciously camp, but by now the tale has worn thin...

...9 The Great Gatsb3n F. Scott Fitzgerald's works have never had it so good on the screen before...

...Bruce Dern flexes his muscles and cheats on his wife Daisymhis Tom Buchanan is the best acted role in the film, the cast of which is uniformly fine...

...Charlton Heston as Moses, er, urn, that is, Richelieu, plus fabulous sets, moments of fun, but don't say that seventeenth-century France was all sport and frolic...

...The ones that succeed in earning a profit receive an average net return of less than 5 percent on sales and 10-11 percent on invested capitalm hardly the ' ~ n d f a l l s " people thinl~ f) Nearly half of all profits are collected and spent by the government...

...When profits decline, companies are forced to cut back employment...

...J U.S...

...Hanging in there, for the season, most likely...

...In markets where profits are good, new producers are attracted and competition keeps prices in line...

...About 40 percent of what remains is paid out to 31 million shareholders...

...Pretty colors, stupid dialogue, preposterous throughout...

...The Alternative June-September 1974 29...

...Ho hum, it does become rather tedious, what with so many reincarnations of this blue-eyed twosome at the same game, but this one is fun, the plot is juicy, and it beats Oral Roberts revival meetings on the tube...

...4) A Postscript: Aside from inflation, the economy must cope with two big problems in the years ahead--building more capacity in energy and raw materials and making room for 1.5 million additional workers each year...

...9 Conrack: Jon Voight as a hip modern Mr...

...e) Over three out of every ten companies lose money each year...

...Here are some facts the public needs to know: a) The profits of all U.S...

...9 Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks' spoof of western shoot-em-ups, starring Black Bart, the Negro sheriff (Cleavon Little), villain Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), fast-gun Gene Wilder as the Kid, Brooks as a Yiddish-spouting Indian chief and a moronic governor (What...

...It must be given all the facts...

...9 Sunseer Ever wonder what happened to Timothy Leary's pal Dick Alpert, the LSD-guru...

...3) Some Basic Economic Facts: The profit-and-loss system is under attack as never before...

...Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Simon Ward, Raquel Welch (Raquel Who...

...Newman, Redford, the thirties...

...Published with permission from David L. Babson and Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts...

...d) Profits have the role of telling businessmen where to place their emphasis in converting labor, raw materials, and energy into useful products and services...

...A1 Pacino is super...

...The Future, with Sean (Bond) Connery beefy and robotish...

...9 The Super Cops: Are you ready for just one more...

...companies together have gone up, on average, by less than 5 percent a year since 1947...

...Madeline Kahn does the Dietrich put-down to end them all, as Lili von Shtupp the Teutonic Titwillow...

...and Frankie Laine vocalizes...

...Mia Farrow delicate and chirpy as Daisy Buchanan...

...The drug industry--anether perennial punching bag--is also being charged with gouging the public...

...If so, o.k...

...9 Zardoz...

...After the 1969-1970 recession, most companies' profit margins were the lowest since the 1930s...

...B Mames Hn% let's see: first there was the book (1955), then the play Auntie Marne (1956), then Rosalind Russell in the Auntie Marne film (1958), then the stage musical Marne with Ar~ela Lansberry, and now-they've juiced up Lucille Ball (age 62), shot her through enough gauze and fuzzy focus to reduce her to mush, and set her hopping through those tired old tunes for the umpteenth time...

...These funds finance expansion, create more jobs, and develop new ways of providing goods and services as efficiently as possibl e . All this lifts the nation's standard of living...

...Lee Marvin doing his grizzled old bandit number again, this time tying in with three innocent lads (Gary Grimes, ROn Howard, and Charlie Martin Smith, the last two out of American Gra~t~) turning to crime for fun and profit...

...Dora De I~uise gives faggotry a bad name...

...Still and all, it is harmless froth and, damn it all, Ball makes it work, with no singing voice, the body of a gal half her age, and ain't she got fun...

...Where profits are poor or actual losses occur, competition stays away and directs its resources to more productive areas...

...Another 100 million people also benefit from the dividends received by such stock-owning institutions as insurance companies, mutual funds, trust accounts, pensions, and profit-sharing plans...

...lovable con men outwitting the baddies...

...and assorted jokes as old as the hills, in a mostly flawed pastiche that at moments is incomparably hilarious...

...U.S...

...Then you clone from that Apple's Way, by Earl Hamner, Jr...

...Robert Redford wrings every last drop of vitality out of his role as the Midwestern parvenu become West Egg (Long Island) Croesus...

...This is a little slower than the typical paycheck has increased and it is only about half as fast as total government spending has risen...

...It'll get you, be forewarned, but the trend is already a crashing bore...

...Then, just to make sure that the Hamners eat right this year, you construct yet another, shall we say warming, heart-rending tale of just plain folks...

...But it won't get them unless more businessmen speak out on the economic issues that apply not just to their own fields but to the whole system...

...As for me, I'll take: _9 The Three Musketeer~ Whatshisname's classic again, filmed here as high camp...

...He and a bowlful of new consciousness swamis doing their thing, lovely to see, but it won't replace wife-swapping among the masses...

...9 Serpico: A bit rough around the edges, perhaps, but powerful in its delineation of the honest cop (a happy surprise) combating his unconscionably crooked peers...

...This one is of kids making do after their mountain daddy dies...

...9 The Exorcist: The debbil made her do it...

...g) Virtually everyone, including the government, is helped by the profits that are reinvested within the companies...

...economy to reach its present size and strength...

...You say there are other kinds...