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Confused? Screenwriters Pierson and Rubel hope you'll be, at least at first. They want you to be seeing double before you've settled in your seat. Fanciers of '30s screwball comedy may chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself...
...secretary of administration and finance, who has worked for the Governor since 1975. "What he'd spend lots of his time doing is what he likes best: traveling around the country, convening task forces, talking with Governors and mayors, promoting regional economic development." Longtime advisers predict that Dukakis would chafe at the constraints of life in the White House and try to break out of the splendid isolation of the presidency through nonstop travel. Says DeVillars: "There'll be plenty of work for advance men in a Dukakis presidency...
Burt Reynolds and Molly Ringwald try for comebacks, but only Daffy Duck is back in style. -- Moviegoers chafe at the $7 ticket...
...consequence of prosperity has been the emergence of a sizable middle class. In opinion surveys, as many as 80% of South Koreans describe themselves as members of that group. While the middle class embraces a work ethic that naturally abhors instability, it has begun to chafe under the strict, sometimes repressive rule of South Korea's military-dominated government. Last week's convulsions did not amount to a full-scale rebellion or draw a massive government crackdown. But the disturbances recalled the fate of South Korea's first President, Syngman Rhee, who was unseated by massive student demonstrations...
...next little period was pretty routine. They lived near Bordeaux. Janis free-lanced articles. Michel started his firm. Sean was born in 1979, the year his father began to chafe. "I was 90% businessman. I was wearing a mask all the time." He would project himself as a man of the masses when dealing with socialist clients, could quickly affect a monied mien for the benefit of the capitalists, and felt like a fraud. It was also in 1979 that the couple bought the boat, for about $35,000, and began to lay plans...