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Under Smith, General Cinema recently purchased the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for $1.4 billion. The conglomerate also owns 60 percent of the Nieman Marcus Group and has played a leading role in the nation's soda bottling industry...
That spring, wearing a cumbersome knee brace, she led her school team to the Colorado semifinals while leading the state in scoring...
...leadership that supplants the Old Guard will have to brace itself for a further restructuring of the army, which has already suffered strains as a result of the changes brought about under Gorbachev. The military's claim on the national budget, still about one-third of all government spending despite the diminution of East-West tensions, faces additional reduction. Gorbachev has cut military forces by 500,000, to 4 million, but even sharper reductions are likely. The withdrawal from Eastern Europe has sent soldiers home to a severe housing shortage: some 200,000 are still quartered in tents, barracks...
...Brace yourself for Studs. This relationship game show -- a sort of hormone- injected version of Love Connection -- is currently syndicated on only 17 stations, but ratings are soaring. (In Washington the show beat all three late-night local newscasts for two weeks in July.) The premise: two hunky bachelors are sent on dates with the same three women. All five then come on the show, and the guys try to guess what the gals said about them. The comments range from titillating ("I loved the way he sucked my pinky") to taunting ("He was a class-A cheese ball"). Either...
...precious to him because he alone realizes their value. The great gift of Pagnol's memoirs is to create a universal family out of what may have been his private fantasy. They capture the anecdotes of a Provence youth in a scrapbook that all can take delight in. This brace of films is a gift to moviegoers too. It might have fallen into their arms out of an impossibly sunny...