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...Unplugged special on April 22; just after midnight, Hard Rock Cafes around the country will hold listening parties at which the new CD will be sold. The day the CD comes out, the band will appear on Late Night with David Letterman. And, thanks to encouragement from Atlantic, Wal-Mart stores will be stacking Fairweather Johnson right next to the cash register, so patrons will have no trouble picking up a copy with their next bag of Lawn...
...general merchandise--everything from toys to towels to T shirts--rose only 4.5%, to $575 billion. "The low end is tapped out," says Merrill Lynch analyst Peter Caruso. Indeed, credit-card delinquencies are at a 10-year high. And feeble sales growth has forced discounters such as Wal-Mart, K Mart and Toys R Us to squeeze pricing until the bottom line hurts; underperforming stores are being forced shut...
This lunch-hour version of car shopping has been catching on fast. Nine of the largest U.S. auto dealers formed a chain of superstores called Driver's Mart last month to woo back customers from outsiders like CarMax. In Madison, Wisconsin, dealer Jon Lancaster recently opened an outlet called CarAmerica, which he hopes will be the first in a chain of similar stores. "Fun, fun, fun," is how Madison police officer Susan Carnell describes her 90-minute visit to CarAmerica. Carnell drove off in a 1994 Nissan Pathfinder truck, whose $19,950 price was more than $2,000 below...
WELCOME TO THE CLUB Members of PriceCostco and Sam's Club, a unit of Wal-Mart, pay annual fees for the right to get reduced prices on everything from stationery to a side of beef. Now, by enlisting networks of new-car dealers, these discounters are extending the concept to autos. The clubs refer members to dealers, who agree to sell vehicles at a fixed amount over cost. At Sam's Club, where 32 million members pay up to $25 a year, Mildred and Dan Padberg of Tarpon Springs, Florida, figure they saved at least...
...their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted, "Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story...