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Then, compromise Israeli style. Likud bloc leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir volunteered to switch jobs with his Likud cohort Modai. Negotiator turned money man, and vice versa. Peres will save face by playing tough guy with Modai, Shamir will patch together the coalition until the rotation agreement lands him the premiership this October, Modai will stay in the Cabinet and assume what is said to be his dream job. Everbody's happy. Unless conniving politicos get their way, that...
...Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes, 8, of Crosswicks, N.J.: "I like them because they're gross...
Xavier Roberts, creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids and chairman of Original Appalachian Artworks of Cleveland, Ga., is not amused. Last week his company sued Topps for copyright infringement. Roberts thinks that the Cabbage Patch Kids' angelic image is being damaged by the devilish tykes from the Garbage Pail...
Gordon Walker, a screenwriter and sometime actor, has hit a bad patch of life. True, his summer appearance in Seattle in the title role of King Lear was modestly successful and personally satisfying. But during the run, his wife of some 20 years left him; his two sons are far away and growing increasingly remote; and he is back in Hollywood pursuing some familiar bad habits: "For the past few weeks, he had been getting by on alcohol and a ten- gram stash of cocaine and he had begun to feel as though he might die quite soon...
Mexico's woes have distracted U.S. attention from its own patch of despair in Oklahoma and Texas, said Thurow. Falling crude prices have not only devastated many oilmen there but also their suppliers and much of the real estate industry. Says Thurow: "When the oil industry goes down, the whole infrastructure starts to fall in value." The evidence is abundant. The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse reported last week that the number of Houston businesses declaring bankruptcy rose 33% last year...