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...Among Flacks As the Presidency sinks into scandal, White House spokesman Mike McCurry is steadily gaining luster. The secret of his success...
Aesthetically, the dinnerware and cutlery that her company, Izabel Lam International, began marketing in 1989 were an immediate success. Getting the line manufactured was a headache, however. Lam was then working in bronze, which had a beautiful soft luster, but American manufacturers could not seem to give it the special twist she wanted. The only factory that could was in Thailand...
...exclamation point come the question marks. Are there ways to make popular animated films that don't slavishly follow the rules Walt and the boys made up in the 1930s? Are studios jumping on the toon trolley just as the form has shown signs of losing its commercial luster? "I'm a little uncertain," says Chuck Jones, who joined Warner's in 1935 and today, at 85, is the greatest living animation director. "There are so many films in the works now that the market may soon be oversaturated...
...such concerns scarcely dim the newfound luster of MCI as America's most wanted company. MCI stock, which traded for less than $28 a share last month, closed at $37.75 last week. "They [MCI] are in a really enviable position," says Jeffrey Kagan of Kagan Telecom Associates in Atlanta. "They can pick and choose their future and the company that will get them there." And the battle for that future--as well as for the rest of the telecom industry--may just be starting...
...this only makes more obvious the fault of the entire movie: a lack-luster script spiced up with more action than compelling plot. This general lack of scintillating language and not wholly original scenes grew even more grating through the stereotypical portrayal of rural Ireland that, in attempting to appear sweet, seemed oppressively imaginary...