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Like other believers, many New Agers attach great importance to artifacts, relics and sacred objects, all of which can be profitably offered for sale: Tibetan bells, exotic herbal teas, Viking runes, solar energizers, colored candles for "chromotherapy," and a Himalayan mountain of occult books, pamphlets, instructions and tape recordings. Some of these magical products are quite imaginative. A bearded Colorado sage who calls himself Gurudas sells "gem elixirs," which he creates by putting stones in bowls of water and leaving them in the sun for several hours, claiming that this allows the water to absorb energy from...
Audiences can be led, stretched, manipulated, but ultimately each moviegoer makes up his own movie, finding motivations that are unvoiced in the picture, explanations for behavior undreamed of by the screenwriter. Fatal Attraction is an astonishing beneficiary of this consumer creativity. The picture is like Velcro: any theory can attach itself to the story and take hold. As Lansing says, "It's a Rorschach test for everyone who sees it." Is Alex worth our sympathy, pity, fear, loathing, or all of the above? Outside the Evergreen Theater in suburban Chicago, Rochelle Major says, "I had to believe that Alex...
Foreign leaders, however, attach one enormous condition, and it brings economic arguments full circle. They will not risk overstimulating their economies and inducing a new round of inflation for the sake of enabling America to continue living beyond its means. They will insist on a meaningful slash in the American budget deficit. The fear of inflation is particularly strong in West Germany, which was still raising interest rates shortly before Black Monday, to the intense displeasure of the U.S. German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg last week hinted at what would be required to get Bonn to change course. Said...
...widely used sugar substitute -- is offering full refunds to customers who find the company's medications ineffective or experience unpleasant side effects. All a patient has to do is fill out a postcard-size form with information about where the drug was bought and how much it cost, and attach the sales receipt. The patient's physician signs the form, sends it in, and Searle mails the check to the --customer...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd warned last week that the legislators at minimum may attach reservations and understandings that would have to be renegotiated with Moscow. The prospect worries Shevardnadze; he made a point last week of recalling the Soviets' "bitter experience" with the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified and which Reagan has now declared dead...