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...penny-pinching moves have come just in time; criticism of GM's bloated size has been reaching a peak. Says one prominent critic, Maryann Keller, who follows the auto industry for the investment firm of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "GM has done more to help itself in the last three months than it has in the last few years combined." But GM's Smith will have to cut costs even more dramatically if he hopes to quiet the company's sharp- tongued gadfly, H. Ross Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Perot, who joined the GM board...
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EXPECTING. Meredith Baxter Birney, 36, star of the TV sitcom Family Ties, and David Birney, 42, star of the recent TV mini-series Master of the Game and of next season's Glitter: twins, their second and third children; in October; in Los Angeles. Taping of new Family Ties episodes has started, and in the grand tradition of I Love Lucy the show's story line will follow Birney's pregnancy all the way to the birth...
Family Ties (NBC, Wednesdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers two aging flower children (Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross) raising a clan of three conformist offspring with wisdom derived less from Spock and Gesell than from Ozzie and Harriet. Gloria (CBS, Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around...
Like More American Graffiti and Willie and Phil before it, Four Friends omits no fact or artifact from its survey of a decade. Pop songs, love beads, Jack-and-Jackie beachballs, deranged assassins-all are strip-mined for significance. The performers (excepting Reed Birney as a gentle, doomed aristocrat and Natalija Nogulich as Danilo's one stalwart love) display little charm, conviction or screen presence. But the intensity of Tesich's obsessions can ennoble his clichés about love of family, friends and country. And Penn, a poet of domestic sexual tension, stages illuminating vignettes to express...