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...already slashing prices to bring people into their stores. "Consumers tell us that 50% off is what it will take to motivate them," says C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, which studies consumer behavior. Predicts Carl Steidtmann, chief economist for Management Horizons, the retail-consulting arm of Price Waterhouse: "This will be the most promotional Christmas in a decade. Most stores are in far worse financial shape than their customers...
...titled Bob Dole: An American Hero. The film cost $167,000 to produce and distribute and has the feel of Morning in America, the famous, upbeat Ronald Reagan video. Dole's film is heavy on the story of his road back from the war injuries that left his right arm forever limp and his left only barely usable...
...badge of something" that he can button his shirts and dress himself without assistance. "I don't like people helping me," Dole says. "Self-reliance and all that. But I do envy Danny," he adds, a reference to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, another war hero whose remaining arm is strong enough "to cut food, which I can't do." Dole is particularly perturbed by the superfluous inside button on men's trousers. "I wish it could be Velcro or something," he says. Then why button it in the first place? Dole's stare is withering: "I'm the kind...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...
...REMINDED OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMment on justice in King Lear: ''Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;/ Robes and furred gowns hide all./ Plate sin with gold,/ And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;/ Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it." JANICE JOHNSON, San Gabriel, California...