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...promoted new scents by mailing out fragrance strips or inserting them in magazines, and new technology is making it possible for cosmetics producers to use the same advertising technique. Because of a special manufacturing process, the eye-shadow powder sticks to the paper but easily rubs off onto the finger...
Both scripts are flea flickers. Indeed, one can almost imagine The Best of Times's production team huddling around Writer Shelton as he draws ploys in the practice-field dirt with his finger. Hey, guys, get this! A dozen years ago, Jack Dundee (Robin Williams) drops what would have been the game-winning pass from Reno Hightower (Kurt Russell), the best quarterback in Taft High School history. It was more than a ball Jack bobbled. It was the only decent chance Taft ever had to beat big, bad Bakersfield down the road and restore a sense of pride...
...from my life these past few months. Ever since I had turned 18, I had been moody and depressed. My thoughts turned back to my talk with my guidance counselor. "What do you want to be?" she had asked. "A doctor? A stockbroker?" But I couldn't put my finger on it. "I don't know," I had said. "I think I'd like to work mostly at night, something that involves a great deal or irresponsibility...
...Finger pointing is a traditional congressional substitute for legislative action. Even so, few Congressmen truly relish the prospect of a search for scapegoats. Most lawmakers know that if there is no sensible budget passed by September, there will be plenty of blame to distribute when the public begins to feel the bite of the Gramm-Rudman cuts just as voting day rolls around...
From this outline one could imagine farce or domestic tragedy. And indeed the cast of characters--three sisters, bickering parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead...