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...251/2-in. paper parachute won the "drag design" category...
...addition to introducing imaginative marketing, Prins also found new sources of income inside the company. Jefferson began selling the service of its mechanics to competing firms. And while maintenance is usually a heavy drag on earnings in the industry, Jefferson's operation now produces $3 million in revenues. A training school for bus drivers that Prins started in 1980 also makes money and earns Jefferson a 30% reduction in insurance rates. The result of the new services: in the past four years, the privately held company's revenues have increased by 33%, to $20 million, and profits have...
...years later: "Though not fully awakened, [Raskind's] heterosexuality was beginning to emerge. He seemed to have arrived at the climax of an all-American boy-hood." Richards describes Raskind's pre-sex change dalliances with women and, stocked full of estrogens and dressed or undressed in drag, with men. Richards played both sides of the sexual court before her sex change--first and second serves--so the operation can hardly be dismissed as a "second...
...Socialist electorate into swallowing the bitter pill of belt tightening. He pushed through the unpopular wage and price freeze last year. For Mitterrand, there is also an advantage in having Mauroy absorb the unpopularity that the stringent new economic measures will generate. If Mauroy becomes too much of a drag on the party, the President can replace him before the next legislative elections, which are scheduled for 1986. Mitterrand thus has given Mauroy two years in which to perform a healing miracle on the French economy. The next battle for the franc has begun. - By Frederick Painton. Reported by Jordan...
...personality without becoming caricatures. King is particularly apt in capturing a half-tipsy and harassed post-party mood during his early scenes. Licia Hurst has more trouble with the difficult role of Celia: she is the one character severely handicapped by her English accent and many of her monologues drag. Alexander Kafka, generally an appealing Peter, takes the character's confusion to an extreme: not only is Peter upset most of the time he's on stage, but one finds it difficult to imagine him ever calm...