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...waned. Says Public Relations Executive Richard Moran, a former Atari employee: "A gym teacher in Indianapolis still views Silicon Valley as the promised land. But a lot of people here don't see that any more." While the valley still holds riches, its hazards are now in plain view. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...each other. They seem to understand implicitly the humane gesture's futility in a gray-skied climate where the cold has seeped into everyone's bones. But if these lovers can make contact only briefly and tentatively, the film-a passionate whisper from a darkling plain-takes a firm grasp on one's attention. It is a very fine thing. -By Richard Schickel
...Nadia Comaneci and waking up as Shelley Winters. Finally, a little regretfully, the team disbanded. "Celebrity's been a big change for me," Retton said. "In a way it's really neat. But it won't change me. I'm still just plain Mary Lou. Meeting the President was neat. I'm a little sad it's over after nine years. Now I'd like to get into TV work. Fame helps there. I've had quite a few offers." In keeping with her station, her new transportation is a red Corvette...
...sophistication the rest of Texas begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...
Behind his plain-wrapper exterior lies a poet at heart with a phenomenal memory for verse. Wesley Poulson, chairman of Coldwell Banker, says that he once engaged Telling in a duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...