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...these dazzling catalogues afford an index? Because, dear consumer, you will be forced to read them page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine...
...ingratiation. If she and Ken Wahl, who plays her lover, had embraced Torn's wigged-out wickedness of spirit, they might have helped turn the film into the black comedy it sometimes seems to want to become. Still, the script keeps waffling off into farce, romance and just plain improbability; anything spineless to please. And the often estimable Don Siegel brings little conviction, comic or otherwise, to the picture...
Accordingly, the company's fortunes have slumped. Though sales were almost $9 billion last year, Xerox no longer monopolizes the market for the marvel it developed, the copier that works using ordinary untreated paper. Japanese and U.S. competitors have shaved the 70% share of the plain-paper copier market that Xerox held a decade ago to about 45% now Earnings for the first half of this year were down to $271 million, off 16% from the same period a year earlier. Security analysts expect that the third quarter, to be reported this week, will also be poor...
...remaining bulls on Xerox, found the announcement so jarring that he took the company's stock off the buy list at Paine Webber, the Wall Street securities firm. Xerox stock, which made millionaires of investors prescient enough to buy in the years after the plain-paper office copier was introduced in 1959, sold as high as $172 in 1972. It closed at only $37.75 last week, even after moving up in the big market rally; it was at $29 two months ago when the Dow Jones industrial average began its 250-point climb. The low level...
...many company insiders and analysts, Xerox is only now learning how to compete effectively in a world market. The dozen or so years of monopoly in the plain-paper copier field took their toll and left the company overstaffed and flabby when the hardball players from Japan got into the game. Says one old Xerox hand, " When IBM and Kodak started competing with us. we could understand that. They had the same values we had. But then the Japanese came in with another set of rules altogether. All of a sudden, it became a whole new world." It will take...