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...what did you learn from playing a 19th century gal...
...which dispensing with heroes altogether. There are only victims and villains, and it's often not easy to tell them apart. A guy named Joe (Dennis O'Keefe) has been wrongly imprisoned, fingered by his old pals. He breaks out of prison and goes on the run with two gals, a nice social worker, Ann (Marsha Hunt), whom he takes as a hostage, and a tough gal, Pat (Claire Trevor), who helped spring him from stir. Both are doomed to be in love with...
...wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In addition to geopolitical tension, the hurricane season and its potential to disrupt refineries on the Gulf of Mexico lie ahead. And as we grudgingly get used to $3-per-gal. gasoline--it's been nearly two years since crude oil broke $50 a barrel--companies feel more comfortable passing along their own higher costs to customers...
...Finally, Eros published a piece that was erotic and artful: an eight-page "photographic tone poem" by Ralph Hattersley Jr., called Black and White in Color: African-American guy, European-American gal, both nude. They link hands; they kiss, in silhouette; and in the last shot they press against each other. The mood is chaste and a little solemn; no pubic parts go public. Yet this was the feature that got Eros hauled into court. Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been...
...their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill-up. "We get hurt when the price goes up--the opposite of what the customer thinks," says Stewart Spinks, who runs 38 Spinx stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With gas at $3 per gal., Spinks hands credit-card companies about 7¢ per gal.--half of what he makes before paying employees and spending on equipment. So he has joined station owners in Tennessee, Minnesota, New York and elsewhere in trying to avoid credit fees altogether by enticing people to pay with cash. The break...