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...also cause alarm. "I resent some of these prices," says Houston Antiques Dealer M.W. Spaights, 60, clutching a shopping bag with a new sports shirt inside. "I bought a shirt just like this last year for $17, and now they want $25." In Bellingham, Wash., Social Worker Mark Bronson, 34, and his wife Janice have two young children to clothe, and the price of even the smallest garments can make them wince. Says Janice, 29: "I saw a dress that I liked for my three-month-old daughter, but it was $34. This is ridiculous! I can buy a simple...
WATCHING SUNDAY'S debate between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale was the political equivalent to watching Charles Bronson execute vigilante justice on the guy who raped and killed his wife and daughters...
...fact is, though it may seem a great distance from the shacks of the Bayou backwater to the pink stucco of the Burbank 'burbs. Reynolds, in his latest film, hasn't really changed at all--his acting style is the same. Unlike such granite monoliths as Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, he's always gotten by on cuteness rather than caliber. But this lack of depth has never really mattered before...
Despite the improvements, the main reason people live in these units is still price. Where else could Mark Bronson, 32, a social worker in Kennewick, Wash., who earns $16,000 a year, get a two-bedroom house, complete with wall-to-wall carpeting, built-in appliances and other furnishings, that costs $20,000? Says his wife Janice, 27: "Our home is part of the American dream, on a lesser plane...
...there is still something to say for a house that is firmly planted in the ground. Nice as their mobile home has been in the economic pinch, Janice Bronson, for one, would welcome the switch. Says she: "This one does not have a sense of permanence. For one thing, when I run a load of wash, I can't have a record playing; the whole house shakes...