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Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
Clark's shaky new government. In two by-elections last week, Conservative candidates were defeated, thereby shaving the Tories' working majority in the 282-member House of Commons to a razor-thin one vote. The Conservatives have narrowly turned back three recent votes of noconfidence, but it is unlikely that Clark will call a new election for a bigger mandate until after the Liberals decide on Trudeau's successor, probably next spring. The Liberals will most likely follow their pattern of alternating French with English leaders. The foremost contenders: former Finance Minister John Turner, 50, a bilingual...
...portrays her as a lonely woman with all of Joplin's reputed problems. As a star on stage, Midler becomes a voice and a presence. In the striking concert scenes, she projects an astounding vitality and animal-like ferocity, savaging both herself and the audience. Her voice lacks the razor-edged poignancy or raw power of Joplin's but has a vibrancy all its own. Fortunately, Midler avoids impersonating or lip-synching any of Joplin's trademarks: "Try (Just a little bit harder)," "Piece of My Heart," "Me and Bobby McGee." Instead, Midler performs a number of rock and blues...
Rumors of forthcoming official price rises constantly sweep East bloc countries and produce sporadic shortages as shops are cleaned out. Buyers also suffer from hidden prices that the state slides in without fanfare. A product-for example, a $45 electric razor-suddenly might be given a new model number, a different color or a fresh package, and a new price...
Because the Foreign Relations Com mittee is regarded as more pro-SALT than the full Senate, this razor-thin margin was seen as evidence of the rough time SALT II still faces. Indeed, some analysts feel that the pact's toughest and most in transigent opponents have been holding their fire, waiting for the proceedings to move to the Senate floor, probably around Thanksgiving...