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...Duarte is confronted by another challenge, this time from right-wing parties that are loudly demanding his ouster. Their primary beef: a new government war tax aimed at the rich and big business. Whether or not they can inflict damage on Duarte is unclear, but the campaign could backfire. Since the new tax is intended to aid the military in its six-year-old struggle against leftist rebels, right-wingers may soon find themselves pitted against the army, a former ally they can hardly afford to antagonize...
...climbing back to the top, Paramount has made more use than other studios of extra postproduction filming and so-called research screening: assessing the opinions of preview audiences to fine-tune movies for consumer appeal. Early audience reaction persuaded the studio to beef up the love interest in Top Gun and rework completely the ending of Pretty in Pink. In the past, extensive additional film work was regarded as a "stigma," says a former Paramount executive. "But Paramount has done it consistently on almost every movie this year, with the exception of Star Trek...
...both ordered beef and brew sandwiches...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev hinted as much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...