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Critics view the Texas action as a naked attempt to shield the state's lawyers--who charge as much as $400 an hour for such fill-in-the-blanks legal services as drawing up standard wills or simple divorce papers--from off-the-shelf competition. "These are cookie-cutter tasks," says Steven Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics. "When you realize how routinized legal work is, and how much information you can pack into an interactive CD-ROM, then you recognize how easy it is to substitute a computer for a lawyer. That...
While Lyons is unable to convey much of any deep sentiment from any of his cookie-cutter characters, Dog Days is not without some positive aspects. Lyons possesses a breezy and enjoyable style, although it is not particularly complex or challenging. Again, maybe the one-sidedness of the characters stems more from the lack of any sort of complication in the plot or of the novel as a whole. Lyons has not made much of an effort to broaden or expand his characters--each is as constant and predictable as the weather in a coolly air-conditioned room...
...Mafiosi and imprison them on a remote island off the coast. They failed in an attempt to kill him with a bomb planted in a tollbooth on the autostrada. These days when Arlacchi cruises in the Mediterranean on his 40-ft. sailboat, the Italian navy often sends a cutter as an escort...
...embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some 20,000 and the number of operating businesses from 35 to 23, earning himself the nickname "Neutron Juergen," in honor of General Electric's famous cost cutter "Neutron Jack" Welch...
DIED. ALICE FAYE, 86, one of Hollywood's biggest late '30s and early '40s movie box-office draws; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Faye starred in Tinseltown's popular and lucrative cookie-cutter musicals and, with her distinctive contralto, introduced several songs that became pop standards, notably You'll Never Know in Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943). She was one of Irving Berlin's favorite singers. In 1945 she left her film career after Betty Grable supplanted her as Hollywood's favorite musical-comedy actress...