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...still growing, but economists expect such borrowing to expand only 3.5% this year, in contrast to increases of about 8% in each of the past two years. As for the Fiorentinos, when their 1980 Volkswagen broke down, they replaced it with a modest 1986 Isuzu Trooper. Autoworker Bruce Boyd, 30, of Leonard, Mich., says his family has been trying to avoid using credit cards for the past several months. "I'm trying to tighten up just because of the world situation," says Boyd. "I am more conscious of it. I'd just as soon pay cash...
...real human cancer cells, grown in laboratories, rather than on mice. This enables scientists to test more than 300 chemicals a week. Many of these drugs had failed in the past when tested on mice, but the researchers hope their more sophisticated approach will produce fresh leads. Says Michael Boyd, founder and director of the program: "It's a high-risk venture, but this is a gamble worth taking...
Ironically enough, Byrd's character does eventually kill himself. But death itself is not even enough to prevent Boyd from overacting--and off-stage, no less. When his character slits his throat, Byrd hollers into a backstage microphone for about 30 seconds. This is just to let everyone know that he is really dying. And though it is a relief to see Byrd go in the second scene, the thrill is short-lived. He unfortunately returns in the second act as a ghost...
...Tohlson, who has found a way to use fetal tissue to preserve youth. To prove his innocence, Danny embarks on a journey through the culture of Southern California, where fast sex, fast cars (with cellular phones) and fast money pass for the Trinity. He meets the Uber-twins, Boyd and Lloyd, Tohlson's guinea pigs, as stupid as they are strong. There is also Cubanito, a drug dealer who hates the sloppiness of killing and reads FORTUNE so that he can diversify and buy a McDonald's. He is learning the "langwich," he tells Danny. The sweet, agoraphobic Michael, Lauren...
...Most often she focuses her exacting eye on women, solitary spinsters picking their way through uneventful but carefully examined lives. Lewis Percy is reminiscent of all of those awkward, hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero, but Lewis is too decent to be mocked...