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...year's end, responses from Mexico's creditor banks to the IMF's earlier request for new loans were reported to be coming in at a fast clip, with about $4 billion of the needed extra $5 billion already pledged. The biggest banks, which have been masterminding the complex operation, were said to be confident that everything could be pulled together successfully, even though some smaller lenders in the U.S. and Western Europe were still seeking further assurances. Brazil's request for a new jumbo loan of $4.4 billion remained under consideration at New Year...
...year effort, he managed to sneak an M-16 into Libya. Wilson, said Goulding, "was very, very happy, literally roaring with laughter," as he handed the rifle to a Libyan official, who gave it "a full-function test out of the window of his office, a full clip of 30 rounds...
However, part of the fun of this movie is its ready movement between the worlds of fantasy and reality. Unexpected things keep happening at such a clip that by the time we visit Alba to find her roller skating around the vast apartment while her lover cuts onions in a snorkel and face mask, we are ready to accept them. Maybe next year 007 will die his hair green and wear army boots...
...Brigitte Bardot called her "l'Altesse Frigidaire"-Her Majesty the Frigidaire. She is widely credited with giving Monaco the dignity and luster, and of course the splendid tax loophole, in the person now of Prince Albert, the heir apparent, that have helped to bring the once dilapidated old clip joint its present considerable prosperity. She conferred honor on Graustark by allying it with Hollywood...
...light shows, requests for charitable contributions or even car ads while waiting for the feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife: "I wanted to create the most significant mating call...