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Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) is a typical yuppie businessman whose idea of adventure is investing in municipal bonds. He meets Lulu (Melanie Griffith), a Bohemian in bangles, who offers him a ride to work...
From that fateful moment on, Charles' life is out of his control. Lulu takes him on a joy ride which ends with a kinky afternoon in a cheap motel. She is mysterious and exciting, his free-spirited fantasy. She somehow knows that he's "a closet rebel" and takes the liberty of tossing his office beeper out the window...
...valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
General Motors Chairman Roger Smith was beaming with his lights on high last week as he celebrated the biggest and boldest acquisition in his company's history. Two years ago, Smith revealed that the world's largest automaker (1984 sales: $83.9 billion) was courting a mysterious "lulu" of a company, one that would help transform GM from something of a stodgy powerhouse into a high-tech star. Now the Detroit giant was driving off with its prize. After a contest in which it outbid Ford and Boeing, GM agreed to acquire Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (1984 sales...
Many of the characters are shrewdly if harshly drawn stereotypes. Only Dawn is wholly likable, and her situation is so extreme that the reader pays a credulity tax with almost every chapter. Dr. Shinefeld, effective as a therapist, is a lulu of a loser as a woman. Ressner's treatment suggests that what another writer called the Impossible Profession is still beyond easy analysis. -By William A. Henry...