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...picture of two buttoned-down bankers from highfalutin Wall Street power Morgan Stanley smiling and waving their Discover cards would have looked preposterous just five years ago. These are not regular guys. Morgan's chairman, Richard B. Fisher, and CEO, John J. Mack, made $7 million each in 1995. Platinum-card material, wouldn't you say? Don't look for this pair at the self-service pump...
...when the two flashed their Everyman's credit cards for the press last week, somebody should have checked the dates. The cards were so shiny they might have been minted that morning--and not so Fisher and Mack could go on a shopping spree at Sears. No. They had already been shopping in a much bigger store: the stock market. The cards were part of their quarry, a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter Discover that signals an interest in common folks unprecedented at Morgan Stanley since it split from the J.P. Morgan bank...
...back and digitize the entire movie and clean it up. But that's such a subtle, subtle thing." Perhaps then he'll be able to do something about Mark Hamill's Shaun Cassidy-esque haircut, not to mention the doughnuts on the side of Carrie Fisher's head...
...future, or of the technologically advanced past that Lucas imagined. Today we can wallow in the film's sleek retro-kitsch; even the opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters, in the varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself...
...lost in the shuffle? The technological explosion may be providing jobs for those already established, but what about the little guy who consistently encounters a slamming door not because he lacks skills but because companies don't want to be the first to take a chance on him? DOUGLAS FISHER Boston...