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...exactly. You can't swing a rosary in Manila nowadays without snaring a self-professed "destabilizer": someone trying to undermine the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Or an accuser charging the government with some malfeasance, or a Senator or Congressman calling for Arroyo to quit, or a prophet forecasting "major change"?meaning a complete overhaul of the Philippine political system. The press is certainly looking for them, and writing up breathless copy even when they don't quite fit the bill. Eugenia Apostol, publisher of the new Mr. & Ms., did some television interviews at the relaunch soir?e and was asked...
...that would be a governing council, which would draft a new constitution and run the government. Elections would be out for "a year or two." He would head the whole shebang. (Last week the government finally filed a sedition charge against Abat for saying at a recent press conference: "Gloria has to go down now, the government has to go down...
Neil Frank of the National Hurricane Warning Center for keeping Easterners informed on Hurricane Gloria. Thomas T. Earles Culpeper, Va. Fickle Defector...
...Gloria Swanson, for example, pays homage to "Mr. Edison . . . and all the people who had any thing to do with an invention. It made it possible to put us all in tin cans, like sardines. We could have been bad actors, it didn't matter. It was the fact of volume . . . you were just shipped everywhere." Louise Brooks, the '20s star who first retired from films in 1931 at the age of 25, recalls everything and glamourizes nothing: "They keep talking now about deterioration and how the films are lost. They always forget that the big way they were lost...
While some experts think the novelty will wear off, many customers keep buying again and again. This year Joan Ripple of Las Vegas has purchased more than 200 Home Shopping items, ranging from a mink Teddy bear to a two-inch color TV. Another steady customer, Gloria Jones of Cordova, Tenn., confesses, "I pretty well watch it all the time." Among her TV purchases: a high-tech telephone programmed for speed dialing the Home Shopping Club when the next bargain appears. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles and Lianne Hart/Houston