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...certainly sufficient to safeguard the film's mainstream appeal. But if the only image that remains after the film is that of Moore and Lowe doing the deed everywhere from in the shower to on the carpet in front of Danny's double headphone stereo system to in a bean bag chair, you missed Mamet's point about relationships...
...expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness and honesty," says Larry Barnett, founder of Carolyn Bean, a San Francisco card company. Barnett says he has seen women buying emotional cards in bunches, building "a library of sentiments." Says Neil Robinson, a young Washington writer and law student: "Cards have become a part of modern courtship and friendship...
...feelings cards, pastels and calligraphy are popular, and rhyming is considered gauche. Carolyn Bean features wistful, somber messages: "Occasionally, like now, I get so blue . . ." and "As I get older, I truly appreciate the depth of your commitment to me." Russ Berrie cards of Oakland, N.J., stress quiet optimism: "Things have a way of working out" and "Where you've been . . . doesn't matter," a heartwarming message in the age of herpes and AIDS...
...original Bean store has been expanded considerably in the last three years to include a large room with canoes and kayaks hanging in racks and a pond with live Brook Trout--Salvelinus Fontinalis according to the sign...
...stir-craziness is the incentive to go to Bean's, gasoline is the fuel. "We use our parents' gas credit card," explains Boston College student Michelle A. Leone. She and three friends left Boston early in the afternoon and drove up Route IA, which runs along the Atlantic coast, she says. They stopped at Benetton, where they spent $71.40, before heading to Bean...