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...course shedunit. The coed vamp with a mean streak as deep as her cleavage. The peddler of her own educated flesh. The Mata Hari of Ewing Oil. The counterspy for that nefarious lawyer Alan Beam. The scheming sister of Mrs. J.R. Ewing. The seducer of that ultimate seducer, Mr. J.R. Ewing, and the self-proclaimed carrier of his child. What apter justice? The person who fired the shots heard round the world was the female J.R., Kristin Shepard...
...being used to promote items as varied as cologne and traveler's checks. In one TV ad, East Coast Chicken Peddler Frank Perdue declares that "my breasts aren't moving as fast as my legs." Paco Rabanne is trying to boost sales of its men's fragrances with a TV spot that opens on a naked man lying on rumpled bedsheets. When he answers the phone, a woman's voice breathes seductively, "You snore." He responds coyly, "And you always steal the covers...
...ceremony is one thing," he says, "but the real life is more." He looks at the wedding party happily posing just inside the gate. The soldiers and the peddler have just reached the pyramid. "What happens in there has nothing to do with what happens outside," he concludes...
...premier peddler of the new machines showing up in business offices is neither IBM nor Xerox, but An Wang, 61, a Chinese-born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates the market for so-called integrated information systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower...
Similarly, Elkin squeezes out comedy from lost causes, the tickling sensation that comes when backs rub against the wall. An old peddler named Isidore Feldman fetches up in Illinois. He tells his new neighbors that he is "in the last phase of the Diaspora. I have come to the end of the trail in your cornfields." And he gives his son some good advice: "Travel light. Because there will come catastrophe. Every night expect the flood, the earthquake, the fire, and think of the stock...