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...commercials are elaborate Madison Avenue extravaganzas. In one 60-second spot, which symbolizes the problems of inventory control in a small business, the Tramp stands at the intersection of two assembly lines in a bakery. He comes a cropper when the fast-moving line spews cakes onto the floor after he tries to jam a giant-size one into an economy-size box. Taping the sequence required 30 takes-and 150 layer cakes...
...still she boasts that her policies have brought the inflation rate down to 6.3%, the lowest in ten years. She continues to promise that she will "put the 'Great' back in Britain." Thatcher has taken on the powerful trade unions and thus far has not come a cropper. At the same time, she has staunchly resisted industry's pleas to soften her austere monetarism. She has also been lucky. The Labor Party opposition is a shambles, split by left-right fratricide, and the Social Democratic Party's momentum has faded as fractious Britain united behind its resolute leader...
...certain fitful buoyancy of spirit that, on a good night, can make for a quiet laugh and an easy hour. And they may even suggest that television is doing better imitating the movies than cannibalizing itself. Police shows, a usually reliable network staple, have pretty much come a cropper-or, under the circumstances, anything but a copper. Brian Devlin (Rock Hudson) on The Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays...
...program, he asserted, will have no quick impact on either wages or productivity. Concluded Schultze: "I think it is very dangerous to hinge so much on the ability to do this in a hurry because the prospects for disappointment are at least high, and one could really come a cropper...
Princeton's Eric Goldman, who once worked in Lyndon Johnson's White House, expected Carter to come a cropper from the start because, in Goldman's words, "he does not understand modern America. Carter understands small towns, not the cities." New York City University's ubiquitous and biting Arthur Schlesinger Jr. feels that Carter is something the American people produced in their exhaustion and confusion after Viet Nam and Watergate. We are in a period of "national doldrums," contends Schlesinger, and when the U.S. begins to stir again?and it will?the Carter era will be swept away with...