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...tech-noir gloss, this is still a traditional thriller, eager to deliver moral lessons with its frissons. Cheat on your wife, and maybe she gets hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung...
...used up. One matter was settled long ago: Bond films have no competition as the most durable and popular series in movie history. Superman, Rocky and Jaws may have produced four installments; Friday the 13th may have hit six. But 15 films -- and more to come -- with the high gloss and safe thrills of Bond? My dear Hollywood, there are some things that just aren't done...
...chicken stuffed with rice and ginseng root, the two men parted company with vague promises to meet again. While much of the South Korean press chose to emphasize Chun's concession rather than his failure to agree to a referendum, neither of the Kims tried to place an optimistic gloss on the meeting. Said Kim Young Sam: "Frankly speaking, I don't have the right to stop the demonstrations on the basis of the two points the President agreed to." Declared Kim Dae Jung, shortly after police barricades were withdrawn from his house for the first time in 78 days...
...their zeal to book new business, some lenders gloss over the fact that failure to pay up can mean the loss of the borrower's home. In a survey of 91 lenders around the country, two consumer groups, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, found a variety of other alleged abuses. Some lenders failed to disclose that low introductory, or "teaser," interest rates would later be increased. Others did not publicize the fact that their loans required large lump sums as final payments. Last month New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Angelo Aponte warned a dozen local banks...
University and council officials have claimed that leaving the gloss up is not a problem...