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...cities are battling back to attract new companies with tax breaks and seed money. Cleveland is launching a $5 million venture-capital fund that will give money to new local companies. Cincinnati has put together a $15 million war chest. Illinois and Chicago set up a ten-story, low-rent "incubator building" in the city for fledgling firms. Last fall, when a group of electronics companies announced plans to launch a joint computer research center that would have an annual budget of up to $100 million, 57 cities in 27 states put in bids to be the new enterprise...
Against odds as great as Rocky ever faced, Stallone held out. United Artists insisted that the movie come in at $1 million, and the production became a Rocky story in itself. The result was a low-rent victory. The board of health even shut down the commissary. "We were so poor," Shire remembers, "we had stalls instead of trailers." Stallone's acting salary was $620 a week. "I would have done it for nothing," he says...
...walked was like none of the Dreamlands his fathers had. Dreamland focused on his friend Jimmy Seaboft, dead at 18 three days before high school graduation in the hot auditorium of the high school named after his great-grandfather's friend and commanding officer Stonewall Jackson, dead in a low-rent poolhall called Syl's Place because two men from the same refrigerator assembly line in Akron had come to visit relations in West Virginia and in an argument shot Jimmy, leaving Bell to identify the body...
...sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. War lock demonstrates that it is equally enjoy able to spoof...
...story of Breathless is unremarkable. The film chronicles the lives of three country girls, Antonina, Liudmilla and Katerina--all of whom are living in Moscow. Russia's version of Las Vegas, or maybe Marin County, a center of power where anything can happen. Not surprisingly, these honest but low-rent outsiders have dreams of playing this crapshoot for keeps--they want to marry and be able to live the Big Life for good. Antonina is shy and not terribly ambitious. A country house, a car, a nice hubby and fresh vegetables are all she really wants; and not surprisingly...