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...what the Jerusalem Post last week called "the Longest Yawn." Voters are so overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural constituency away from the nightly dose of televised party propaganda...
...larger grouping, Rabin may replace Shamir as Prime Minister. But the two men's policies are so similar that such a prospect elicits little excitement. No wonder many voters are more interested in knowing whether Victoria, the Caracas fashion mogul, will discover that her new model, Crystal, is actually the daughter she conceived with a priest-in-training and gave up for adoption long...
Basically, summertime is guy time. Males drag their dates to the shoot-'em- ups and blow-'em-ups; and last year they made City Slickers, the Billy Crystal comedy about male bonding on a cattle drive, a gol-durned superhit. Will they flock to the baseball comedy A League of Their Own (July 1), even though it's about an all-girls' team? Will they sit still for Ron Howard's transatlantic love story Far and Away (May 22), with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman? "I worry whether it will have any male appeal," says film analyst Grove...
...that comes out of nowhere and is a monster. Then, after the fact, all the people who were concentrating on sequels and star vehicles say, 'Oh, sure, I knew it was going to be big.' " This summer again, the fortune-tellers are using a rearview mirror instead of a crystal ball. | Everyone can be comforted in his ignorance by screenwriter William Goldman's first rule of Hollywood: Nobody knows anything...
...that offer greater strength and can maintain sail shape better in all directions, making the sail more able to adjust to wind changes. America 3's technical director, Heiner Meldner, a physicist who once designed nuclear weapons, says his sails are a composite of fibers, including carbon and liquid-crystal polymers. The Italians use a woven carbon-and-Kevlar fiber glued to a Mylar backing...