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There's no popcorn machine in the lobby or X-rated fare on the screen, yet the movie business flourishes in China. On a ten-day State Department-sponsored visit to Peking, Shanghai and Canton, Hollywood Veteran Kirk Douglas, 63, found that interest runs high-even in his own old swashbucklers. He screened three of his pictures (Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Lust for Life) for small but enthusiastic audiences. Douglas also took a meeting with the cast of Teahouse, an epic film currently under production. "Let's not waste any time," said Douglas to Wang...
...started for a minute, swallowing the grin all at once--no easy feat. Just then Harvard's Mark Fusco ripped a vicious slap shot from the point by a bewildered Demetroulakas. Home 3, visitors 0. Mumbling something about finding some popcorn to go with his pride, he pardoned and excused himself all the way to the aisle, disappearing into the crowd...
...attention to what is on the screen. So imagine that you are in Radio City Music Hall-not in 1982, with all attendant fanfare, but in, say, 1941, when moviegoing was a habit and not an event-cozying yourself into a plush orchestra seat with your date, your popcorn and modest expectations. Here it comes: One from the Heart. Just a movie. What...
...recent convert to participatory sports. A perpetual dieter, he estimates that he has lost almost 450 Ibs. over the past 15 years and gained back nearly all of them. He blames his exercise program, which he describes as "mostly TV-channel switching. My idea of aerobics was shaking the popcorn popper, and isometrics was pushing together the two halves of a sandwich." A year ago, however, he took up jogging, and the 30 Ibs. he then lost have stayed off. "I'm possibly the slowest jogger in rural New Jersey," Reed says. "People walking to the store regularly pass...
Savers weary of such incentives for opening a new bank account as toasters, popcorn poppers and electric frying pans last month received a new and different kind of bonus: high interest rates. Banks and savings and loan associations across the U.S. unleashed massive advertising campaigns to induce customers to sign up early for the new All Savers Certificates. The A.s.C.s were devised to help ailing S and Ls attract business by offering higher interest rates than those given on passbook accounts and a partial tax exemption on yields. Banks and S and Ls have been promising depositors annual interest rates...