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Katzenberg, who waxes ecstatic over the allegorical import behind the cartoons, is asked to explain the allegory of his traumatic week. "It's about a father not being able to accept a son," he says. "I still don't understand it, and it's hard to reconcile...
Listening to Don Flow, 39, who owns nine import, Saturn and GM dealerships, mainly in the Southeast, raises the same question. "The old game," he says, "was let the buyers beware, crush 'em if you can, make as much as you could off everybody. Better to make a kill now than a friend for life. We basically also made our customers turn into s.o.b.s. If a really nice person walked in, they were a lay-down in front of us. The industry had a lot of fun with those techniques...
...customer I'm not coming down in price was like steering a ship in reverse. It was hard." Then, unexpectedly, Gill had the best May and June in the five-year history of his operation. Customers came back in droves, bringing Toyotas and Hondas with them as trade-ins, import models he had never seen on his lot before...
...with a present dilemma precipitated by the profusion of grotes-queries. The next courtroom appearance for O.J. happens to coincide exactly with that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...
...such a move would accomplish much unless it were synchronized with interest-rate cuts in Europe and Japan, which would not be easy to achieve. It could even be dangerous. The big worry about the dollar slide is that it will fan U.S. inflation by raising the price of imported goods and the American- made products that compete against them. But the U.S. imports more from Canada and Mexico than from Germany and Japan, and the American currency has actually risen against the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso. A further rise in interest rates might hurt the U.S. economy...