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...long ago, Chuck never gave a thought to his financial security. Then came the day when, as Chuck describes it, "I wrote out a check for $1000 to my coke dealer, but I forgot to draw a line after the words 'One thousand,' The slimeball just added the words 'million trillion dollars,' and overnight I was ruined...
Does General Motors tell Ford? Do Coke and Pepsi swap recipes? Maybe not, but two rivals in the toy industry are marrying their successful products in a surprising team-up. The unlikely allies: Hasbro, whose G.I. Joe toys have been best sellers for years, and Worlds of Wonder, creators of Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear, and Lazer Tag, which was the rage last Christmas among youngsters and even denizens of college dorms...
...been allaying Massimino's suspicions with transparent lies. "I honestly believe nothing ever came of it not because he didn't have enough to go on but because he had so much." Before the semifinal game against Memphis State, McLain says he did a quarter-gram of coke in the bathroom of his hotel. The true attitude of the smiling backcourtman, the beautiful dreamer of all the glorious press dispatches, came down to this: "I just wanted the season to be over." He says, "Now I wish Coach Mass had tested me then, or got me some help, or something...
Gonna: Tess Harper, Crimes of the Heart. This performance sucked the root. But they'll give it to Harper because it had just the sort of nutty Southern Belle Phoniness the Academy gobbles up...as opposed to Spacek's genuine Southern nuttiness, peanuts down the Coke bottle etc., which was acting, not caricature...
...they see are neatly lettered flavor lists, the digital register, and a convenient human production-line waiting to place their order before them. You order, you pay, you eat your ice cream. A nice little sequence that's as smoothly cause-and-effect as popping coins in the Coke machine. Wrong...