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Merengue madness is not shared throughout the Caribbean. Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...Crimson Shop, 16 Dunster St., the undergraduate tuxedo business has been heavier than usual. "We've sold a couple of dozen tuxedos since the end of the summer," says one store employee. The Crimson Shop's tropical wool tuxedo jacket and pants set retails...
...turned the task of landing the shark over to Braddick because "I ain't no spring chicken"; after a two-hour struggle, the fish gave up. The next day thousands of locals and tourists crowded the Montauk marina to see the shark, which weighed 3,450 lbs., 800 lbs. heavier than the International Game Fish Association champ, caught off Australia in 1959. Braddick's brute may not qualify for the record books, however. The 150- lb. test line he used exceeds the allowed strength...
...Cliff, which can safely carry its crew to a depth of 20,000 ft. Its manipulator arms can operate a variety of underwater tools, including a drill, a cable cutter, scissors, and plier-like jaws that can grasp sunken torpedoes, as well as attach cable slings to raise heavier objects such as downed aircraft...
...members of the party carry a heavier symbolic weight. Bishop (Lance Henriksen), an android who proves himself a distinct improvement over the traitor robot of the first film. Bishop offers a prejudice Ripley has to overcome and, in the end, some surprising heroics for the audience to cheer. The other outsider is a different case. Burke (Paul Reiser) is a junior executive in "the company," the monopoly that has all of space to profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them...