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Welcome to Redbud, Andy and Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith). He hopes to write that big novel; she's looking for peace and quiet. Instead they find a snake in their living room, a corpse in the garden and a mailman who thinks he's Mad Max in a pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main...
...networks too are beginning to go after cable shows. When Cinemax's Max Headroom became a cult hit last season, ABC spirited the computer-created character away and repackaged him in a prime-time (if short-lived) series. The Fox network has picked up Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy series It's Garry Shandling's Show and has fashioned an adult version of Nickelodeon's children's game show Double Dare. NBC is carrying the cross-pollination one step further, with plans to produce a comedy series, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, for the Disney Channel. The show may also...
...partly because several major New York investment firms have halted index-arbitrage for their own accounts. While the firms did so largely as a public relations move to calm investor fears, most of them continue to conduct program trading to satisfy customers whose money they manage. Says Max Chapman, president of Kidder, Peabody: "Speculation is not a dirty word...
Chief U.S. negotiator Max Kampelman and Soviet negotiator Viktor P. Karpov signed another document at the Soviet mission that guarantees any futuristic weapons developed in the intermediate-range also would be banned under the treaty...
Afterward, hundreds of people threw stones at police, who responded with rubber bullets and clubs, Associated Press photographer Max Nash reported from the scene...