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Amber soon finds she has a zaftig rival: Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake), who is plump, perky and, pound for bouffanted pound, the snappiest Caucasian dancer in town. The girl has that je ne sais quoi called Star Quality. Soon Tracy is outshining Amber on TV, modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show...
...mind, indeed. The quavering romantic nature flops like a landed fish but never expires entirely, our middle-aged boy discovers. Debts pound at the door like crazy firemen; responsibilities rise like dunes on the Cape; girls in their 20s call him Sir (Oh, call me Captain); and still our hero hopes. Will love come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping...
Another subtle bias favors athletes. Unfortunately, not many 280-pound Asian tackles are running around. To displace the Harvard Varsity Club's vested interests in the student body would be impossible if not undesirable...
...nearly four years, Texaco and Pennzoil have been corporate America's equivalent of Iran and Iraq, fielding armies of lawyers to pound each other with salvos of briefs and appeals. Last week the war came to an end. Both sides announced that they had reached an agreement to settle the historic dispute that drove Texaco into bankruptcy court and has already generated about $100 million in legal fees, with more sure to come...
...level in nine years. Part of that decline came about because many farmers have reduced acreage under cultivation and the size of their herds. But, at the same time, unusually low feed and fuel prices have helped farms cut the cost of producing a bushel of grain or a pound of beef...