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...house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo), brisk direction and more laughs than at least half of the teen films released last summer. Stir Crazy's challenge, like that of all the network newcomers, will be to keep it up every week and try to become a new habit...
When a green Buick passed by in the left lane doing a brisk 70 m.p.h., Woullard radioed up to his partner, who was waiting a quarter-mile up the road. The green Buick got nailed...
...topic that is still too sensitive for the committee, however, is direct trade with mainland China. Indirect trade through Hong Kong is brisk. Taiwan last year exported $430 million in goods to China, up 171% from 1983. Although the government winks at the practice, which is technically illegal, many businessmen want Taipei to let them tackle the mainland market head on. "We should open an office in Hong Kong to find out what the (Chinese) need," says a Taipei businessman. But Chiang remains unimpressed with mainland economic reforms. "They are Communists, and that will never change," he says. "They used...
...appeal of the dishes transcends class and geographic boundaries. Dealers report brisk sales from Beverly Hills to Beverly, Mass. About 70% of them, though, are still found in rural communities, which often have bad television reception. In Appalachia, where for years hill folk put up towering antennas on top of houses or neighboring ridges, families are now buying basic $1,000 earth stations...
...Brisk and confident, treated more like a ranking diplomat than a preacher, Jerry Falwell concluded an inspection tour of South Africa by spending not only six hours with Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha but an hour with State President P.W. Botha. Upon his return to the U.S. last week, Falwell denounced the drive in Congress for economic sanctions against South Africa and urged "reinvestment" instead of divestment. Falwell opposes apartheid, but professed faith that Botha will dismantle the system eventually, if only everyone is patient. The alternative, he said, is either a more draconian white regime or a Soviet-aligned...