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Such questions are usually the arcana of traders and government specialists. But now they are at the center of the hottest, and most complicated, political fight of the year. The arguments, though often phrased in economic jargon, involve gut issues: prices and jobs. The battle has been joined not only by Washington and Wall Street but by the major industrial powers as well. At stake is nothing less than continued prosperity and friendly relations between the trading nations...
...channels now offer early-bird exercise shows. Health clubs remain popular, and Americans are also converting their homes into private gyms. They will spend an astonishing $1 billion on various devices this year, nearly as much as what is spent on equipment for ; camping, golf and racquet sports combined. Hottest items: Soloflex and other multipurpose contraptions, rowing machines, and updated versions of that old standby, the exercise cycle...
...year after its debut on NBC, Miami Vice, TV's hottest and hippest new cop show, is reaching a high sizzle. Scheduled on Friday nights opposite CBS's popular Falcon Crest, the show languished in the bottom half of the Nielsens for its first few months on the air. But viewers gradually began to take notice of its high-gloss visual style and MTV-inspired use of rock music, its gritty South Florida ambience and the cool charisma of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, who star as Miami Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Since...
...Ewings of Dallas may have had their spats, but the hottest blood feud on American TV this season unfolded in Spanish, not English. The setting was Acapulco; the central character, a nasty stepbrother named Maximiliano. In a complicated scheme to win a family inheritance, he fooled a young woman into marrying him by posing as his half brother Antonio. Then he plotted the real Antonio's death in an "accidental" plane crash. The scheme went awry, however, when Antonio survived and returned to battle Maximiliano for both the money and the woman...
There were knowing discussions of regular floods and flash floods, of death by lightning (Florida is No. 1, with an average of ten a year) and death by psychopathic sniping. Chemical leaks and chemical spills were the hottest topics. But earthquakes were not neglected, nor tornadoes and hurricanes, famine, terrorism, high-rise fires and wildfires, plane crashes, train derailments and explosions of all kinds. Fretting about an epidemic? A nearby volcano about to blow? A poisoned water supply or a building collapse or a < riot? You ought to have been in In- dianapolis. Professor E.L. Quarantelli, director of the University...