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...simply as a Picasso. A designer's dream, surely. But the less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality, lower-cost versions into the price range of mortals sometime near century...
...Beverly Hills, toiling as a matchmaker, as her father's confidant, as a makeover adviser to a clumsy friend (Brittany Murphy) and as her stepbrother's nemesis. All this echoes the plot of a certain Jane Austen novel. But the touchstone of Clueless is less Emma than Hammacher Schlemmer. The movie is about conspicuous consumption: wanting, having and wearing, in style...
During the same period, De Klerk has shown impressive skill at outmaneuvering Mandela and maintaining control of the transition process. He enjoys strong support from whites and blacks alike. "This is not a regime that is collapsing," says Lawrence Schlemmer, director of Johannesburg's Center for Policy Studies. The government's competency has frustrated the A.N.C. Most galling of all has been the success that De Klerk has had in being welcomed by black African leaders the congress considers close allies...
There will be a fantasy sequence involving the lead actor and a dagger. For $20,000, he could say, "Is that a dagger that I see before me? Methinks I recognize it from the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog." (For $40,000, he will seize the implement and use it to slice some cheese.) The King also has trouble sleeping. A Sominex visual would be $20,000; for $40,000, he would actually swallow a pill; for $60,000, his insomnia can be cured, though this will take some rewriting...
...from clear that either side is ready to abandon its maximum demands. Says Lawrence Schlemmer, director of Johannesburg's Center for Policy Studies: "What normally precipitates conflict resolution is a need to limit damage." But South Africa is not in a desperate crisis, and neither the government nor the A.N.C. is feeling enough pressure to make concessions on vital issues...