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...smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime, but nobody is making millions...
...officials were equally astute. Said Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1930: "I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism." (Joke of the day: Hoover asks Mellon, "Can you lend me a nickel to call a friend?" Mellon answers, "Here's a dime. Call all of them...
...threatened by it," says Cher, 35, of her upcoming Broadway debut in a comedy, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. "An artist isn't intimidated. Once I couldn't sing. Now I can." In a formidable cast that includes Karen Black, 39 (Five Easy Pieces) and Sandy Dennis, 44 (The Four Seasons), Cher plays a garrulous cocktail waitress who is hired on as an extra in the 1956 James Dean-Liz Taylor movie, Giant, when it is filmed in her small Texas town. The play also marks the Broadway bow of Film Maker...
...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel or dime deposit on bottles and cans, the state would slash pollution. And judging from the experiences of those states which already have bottle laws, Massachusetts could expect reduced energy costs and increased employment...