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...friends make to the Coast?) And, naturally enough, once in the Promised Land, Peter meets Susan--as portrayed by Barbara Hershey, a nicely built body and a little bit of cloth. Before he must return to the streets of coldest Cambridge, the two find some time for a pinch of intrigue, a snort of cocaine, and a fair helping of sex (including one of the longest bouts of screen kissing since Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway locked jaws in The Thomas Crown Affair). Again, not surprisingly, once home Peter soon realizes how much of Susan he misses and John kindly...
...average reduction of at least 5% in their overseas purchasing power. In Japan, which ranks second only to Brazil in U.S. mission activity, the drop could run as much as 17%. A spokesman for the biggest U.S. mission board, the Southern Baptists', called devaluation the "worst dollar pinch since the Depression" and estimated an immediate loss in Southern Baptist spending power of $1.5 million...
...perspective it allows. Retelling the essentials of an actual case of heroin smuggling from France into New York. William Friedkin's film concentrates on the facts and mechanics of narcotics detective work, and the intense, long-term efforts of two cops to trace $32 million in heroin and to pinch the underworld business associates making the transaction...
Attorney General John Mitchell has demonstrated that Martha isn't the only stand-up comedian in the family. Called upon to pinch-hit for his sick wife as commentator at a Martha Mitchell Fashion Fiesta in Tempe, Ariz., John wowed the audience of 1,200 with some gags right out of the old Keith-Albee circuit. When a woman sponsor of the show asked him at the microphone. "May I call you John?", he cracked back. "Yes, if I may call you later." Giving the models an appreciative eye: "I don't know about the clothes...
...Inch Pinch. Shrimp lovers in America are not the worst hurt victims of price rise. Japanese consumers are paying dearly for their crush on crustaceans: up to 58? each for jumbo six-inchers. Yet sales are increasing by 20% a year, partly because Japanese personal incomes have been rising...