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Executives of the West Hartford, Conn., company had expected the Adam to be a hot seller, but quality defects have chilled sales and caused customers to return up to 30% of the computers. And while Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids remain a huge hit, some analysts now believe that the firm will have to discontinue Adam in order to stem its losses...
...children. I don't believe in reincarnation, but you know how babies move uncoordinated? He never moved that way. When he danced, it was like he was an older person." Katherine talks about her life raising nine children as if she were taking a walk over a patch of ground for the thousandth time, familiar and at ease with every bump and flower. We talk for about 20 minutes while my cab waits...
...maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this year Coleco, purveyors from the Cabbage Patch, will offer a new line of Seuss dolls...
...first emerged as a painter, it was with images that looked utterly deadpan: paintings of ocean liners, enlarged from postcards and publicity brochures. But their method was peculiarly systematic, a parody of system, in fact. Squaring the postcard image up to canvas size, Morley would work on it patch by patch, sometimes upside down, stippling away so that each bit of water or hull looked abstract to him, as patterns do when they are isolated and magnified. What counted was not so much the liner as the process of painting it, a concretion of gratuitous labor. If Canaletto had been...
Before the week was over, Regan and Feldstein had managed to patch together a facade of harmony. At a House Appropriations Committee hearing, they sat side by side and contradicted each other on only a point or two. Later, at the end of a Senate session, Democrat William Proxmire of Wisconsin asked Regan why he had said that Feldstein's economic report should be thrown away. "Sorry, Senator," said Regan, "that was last week." The meeting adjourned amid chuckles...