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...most grownups remember them, baseball cards were icons of wholesomeness and tradition. The cardboard heroes flashed all-American smiles and nearly always posed hitting, pitching or fielding. But now a touch of flamboyance is stealing into the baseball-card business (estimated sales: $45 million). While most cards retain the classic style, a few of the new designs might be enough to make Cubs Announcer Harry Caray blurt his famous "Holy...
...show gets right off with Wooster at his club chitchatting with cardboard cutouts. Wooster rambles in and out about his-life-and-so-on until he eventually arrives in the dramatic Promised Land, the arrival of the indespensible Jeeves. The conversation cum soliliquy is punctuated throughout by Wooster's belly laugh, a "MAHAhaha" that would put an armored battalion in retreat...
...quick scene and costume change later, and we're in Wooster's rather flat flat--yes, more cardboard, I'm afraid. Duke as Wooster narrates the historical encounter between himself and Jeeves, who is also himself, that is to say, Edward Duke. Rather confusing, but it's all clear when you see it since Duke shifts between Wooster and Jeeves like Warren Beatty on a double date...
Many of the new breaking products are intended to make the acrobatics easier on the knees and skull. Most break dancers do their gyrations on cardboard retrieved from supermarket dumpsters or on sheets of linoleum. Early in September, though, a California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will...
Still, even a cardboard hero should not be fatal in the reality-avoidance game. The reader is willing to spend a couple of evenings in Preston's numbing company if doing so will let him put off thinking about that oral surgery or those dunning letters from school. What overstrains Forsyth's vehicle to the point of collapse, when other thrillers no less dim clatter on dependably to their conclusions, may be that the author has weighty ideological points to make. His first intention is not to write an entertainment but to preach a political sermon. Its burden...