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...built a plant in Huntsville, Ala., to manufacture color television sets bearing the company's own name. Consumer response was swift and positive. Since 1983, Goldstar's revenues from TV sales have more than tripled, to $100 million in 1985. TV sets with the Samsung label have also become brisk sellers...
...With brisk strokes Michael colors the hair of his stick figure. Then he covers the entire face with hair, tosses the paper aside, and begins again. He appears not to have heard the suggestion about laying his head on the paper and instead draws his head as a large circle with slits for eyes, a button nose and a huge mouth grinning with jack-o'-lantern teeth. He discards that paper as well. Suddenly he is out in the hall, watching Ralphy receive his lecture. He is told to return to the others, and he runs back with strange, jerky...
...about start World War III. Chase has made a career, if not an art, of strenuous japery like this, but Co-Writer Aykroyd has again neglected to give himself a character to play. So this Road to Armageddon plays more like Crosby and Hopeless. Director John Landis achieves a brisk and funny basic- training sequence, then follows the plot into political irresponsibility. After Hollywood's glut of lame-brained right-wing movies, viewers may welcome a comedy that portrays American military intelligence as a contradiction in terms. But even conspiracy buffs deserve better than this. So do lovers of lowball...
...opera world, where gossip is a way of life, Battle is said to live up to her last name. By reputation she is a temperamental prima donna who can be cold or even hostile to colleagues, a master of the brisk nod or, worse, the blank stare. Backstage, Met staffers are still talking about her dustup with Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa during the production of Strauss's Arabella. Battle, it seems, wanted some cuts in the music restored, at which Te Kanawa balked. Heated words were exchanged. Battle claims to be mystified by her fearsome reputation. Says...
Sales of liquor have been brisk this past week as consumers tried to stock their bars before price went up. Retailers and wholesalers, however, could not avoid the price increase as easily as their consumer. A one-time tax on liquor store inventories will be collected and prevent store owners from stockpiling...