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Some are more likely to tote shotguns than hand-held placards reading THE END IS NEAR, and they scrutinize the Dow Jones average more carefully than the Good Book. But just as surely as the doomsayers of old, perhaps a million or more Americans foresee the imminent collapse of Western civilization. Clustered mostly in California, Utah and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, they are busily preparing to face the apocalypse and, above all, to survive it by providing themselves with sufficient food, fuel, shelter and weapons. Their efforts have given rise to a flourishing survival industry, specializing in everything from...
Friedkin closets his film in ambiguity and elliptical action (he apparently cut several shocking scenes to appease viewers). Though it is superbly photographed in threatening shades of black, grey, blue and purple with effective use of moving and hand-held cameras, neither the characters nor the plot hold enough weight. Pacino has barely 100 lines. He is fine, as usual, but he is little more than Friedkin's pawn; the script never explores his relationships with Allen or Ted beyond a superficial level...
Authorities will have hand-held metal detectors available but there will be no airport-style metal detector at the door, largely because Boston school officials advised Rindge and Latin administrators that students waiting on line to pass through such devices might get into fights...
...When hand-held computer toys and games first appeared on the market two years ago, retail sales climbed briskly to between $35 million and $40 million. This year's retail sales should be ten times greater (against total toy sales of about $5.5 billion). The great beep forward came when Milton Bradley noticed that adults were buying its innovative Simon -for themselves, and not just in the weeks before Christmas. The highly seasonal nature of toy buying has always been an industry bugaboo; after Christmas, retailers can get stuck with toys that won't sell...
...only bought Simon and the competing computer toys like this year's play-alike Computer Perfection, but also are more or less cheerfully paying $40 to $50 for them. That shattered forever the $15 to $20 level the industry had considered its average. Now more than 100 different hand-held computer toys crowd store shelves...