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Tony Kraber had come dressed for the occasion: even the scarf he wore around his neck was imbued with almost 50 years of memories. Tall, lean, striding with the assurance of his 78 years, he pushed his way gently through a lobby full of adolescents to the inner room, the one with the stage. He stopped a few steps in, his eyes bright with anticipation, then soft in reverie, as he gazed at the vaguely familiar faces, the piles of photographs and clippings, the mementos of happy times a half-century ago. From across the room a bulky man offered...
...Although lean budgets and tight production schedules are still the norm, such exceptions as Thriller and the Paul McCartney-Michael Jackson Say Say Say are stirring interest. Every major record label now has its own in-house video department. Video budgets are getting to be as hotly negotiated as salary increases whenever a performer's contract comes up for renewal. "A video indicates to an artist a level of acceptance and prestige," says Gil Friesen. Says Len Epand, general manager of Polygram Records' video division: "Videos are collectible and deserve to be purchasable. Right now music video...
...Carpenter's cast mixes vigorous old pros with young comers; Keith Gordon is a hilariously intense Jekyll-and-Snide. The movie-Carpenter's best since Halloween-is at heart a deadpan satire of the American male's love affair with his car. This Christine is one lean mean funny machine. -By Richard Corliss...
There is a third centrist alternative. It rejects all the foregoing categories. It is aggressively nonideological, neither pro-nor antidefense, welfare or anything else. It seeks only programs that work: weapons, cars, food programs that are lean, clean and mean. It wants guns that shoot straight; it is not terribly concerned what they shoot at. Most of the world calls these people technocrats; in America nowadays they are called neoliberals...
Nevertheless, the Great Communicator did not stint on personal details. His diet is light and lean (except for tacos at lunch on Thursday) if not quite salt-free: "I mean, you'd have to be a raccoon or something to eat a hard-boiled egg without salt, but I use very little." He no longer body surfs, but still performs backflips into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added...