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...million households spent $46 million growing herbs, in contrast with 5 million spending $39 million the year before. Some make tea from them, some bathe in them, some swear to their healing powers. Having mastered the basic basil, rosemary and sage, gardeners move on to lovage stems, bee-balm blossoms and lemon grass. The health conscious prize herbs as a salt substitute, while the cost conscious find that pricey, herb-flavored vinegars and oils are easily made at home...
...Sanofi and the other bidders rush for Robins? The answer lies in such mundane but popular household items as Robitussin and Dimetapp cold medicines, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea-and-tick collars. Those are among the products that make Robins one of the most profitable bankrupt companies in history. In the first three quarters of 1987, Robins earned $60 million on sales of $621 million, compared with profits of $55 million on revenues of $579 million during the same period...
...record 9,000 new customer accounts in one day last week. "We think this was a flight to quality," said Shearson Chairman Peter Cohen. "People are feeling that it's probably better to be housed in big firms rather than smaller ones." Whatever the reason, the new business was balm to the brokerage that announced last month it was firing 150 workers in its London offices and cutting back its trading of municipal bonds...
...INTO Balm's society of antisocials, whose only law is "me first" stumble two comparatively well-off and friendly misfits. Joe (C.J. Nolan) is a middle-class hustler looking for a piece of the drug-pushing action, and Darlene (Jacqueline Grad) is a woman unaccustomed to the "big city" (she's from Chicago) who is looking for an office job. It is no surprise that they are attracted to each other, and their relationship, though there is not enough compassion or love in it to call it a romance, offers the only hope in the play that anyone will overcome...
Today's jaded audiences may not find Balm as shocking as did those who saw it when the then unknown Wilson first produced it in 1965. Still, the Alley Theater production commands attention because, at its best, it displays the sweep and energy of a symphony orchestra--or perhaps the Mahavishnu Orchestra. At its least, Balm in Gilead is an entertaining evening of voyeurism, a chance to go slumming without going farther than Inman Square...