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...hold on a mo', mates. A shrewdly unsettling tack by a New Zealand banker, Michael Fay, aims to sink San Diego's big party. When Fay sent his unconventional fiberglass New Zealand into the elimination series in the last go-around, Conner tweaked the Kiwis, intimating they "wanted to cheat" their way to victory with design legerdemain. Within seven months, Fay had conceived a comeuppance from Down Under...
...Duke on how we can prevent the NSC from running amok in the future--"Well, it begins with the fellow in the Oval Office," the Massachusetts governor said. "I've been a chief executive for nine years and..."--and DuPont and Haig on what to do when the Soviets cheat on treaties--"That's a good question, Pete, and let me add a few more Soviet treaty violations you forgot to mention." Ho-hum. Can I buy an idea...
...some come to visit. Glenn Close, who plays Alex, was recently approached by a mid-40s woman with her husband in tow: "She had enjoyed Fatal Attraction, and was taking him to see it 'so he'll never cheat on me.' And he goes, 'Huh-huh' -- this nervous little laugh." Sidney Ganis, Paramount's marketing boss, observes, "There is a fever out there. It is more than a movie. It's part movie, part real life." Adrian Lyne, the film's director, is amazed by its reach: "The movie is almost like a living thing that feeds off the public...
Working at home, however, is hardly problem free. People often miss the intellectual stimulation and socializing that occur in office settings. Many report that they have trouble sticking to the business at hand, especially when no one is around to see them cheat by taking a nap or turning...
...tech-noir gloss, this is still a traditional thriller, eager to deliver moral lessons with its frissons. Cheat on your wife, and maybe she gets hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung...