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...understatement. The bomb, a very sophisticated one, is intended to persuade its recipient, Freelance Writer Robert Halliday, that the sender is a man to be taken seriously. Next, through devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur...
...record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark of 1 min. 42.3 sec. in the 800 meters). Just before the Olympics last year, Ovett went to Oslo and marked Coe's record "return to sender" with a time of 3 min. 48.8 sec. They finally met on the same track at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the 800-meter run, Ovett finished first and Coe second; Coe took the 1,500 meters, and Ovett came in third...
Another advertising option is direct mail, which enables the sender to pinpoint his audience. Islip, N.Y., Lawyers William Harrison and Alfred Koffler were dissatisfied with their newspaper-ad campaign offering house closings for $235, so they reduced their rate another $40 and sent out letters to 7,500 homeowners. The result: 200 clients and disciplinary proceedings by the local bar association. While New York State's highest court backed the pair and ruled that direct mail was allowed, 38 states still prohibit...
Cloquet is the only one reaching, though. The acting, the writing and the direction break no new ground, and provoke little thought. Sentimental and airy. I Sent a Letter to My Love is more posicard than epistle, asking little of the sender, and demanding little from the recipient. Is is just the sort of gossamer summery flick that may challenge The Last Metro for top spot at the Welles...
...dead; it is just very, very expensive. While the CPI (Consumer Price Index) rose 258% in the past 25 years, the CLI (Cost of Loving Index) soared 420% during the same period. Moonlight still comes cheap, but a dozen long-stemmed roses, $5 in the '50s, sets the sender back $60 today. A couple of drinks at a cocktail lounge will cost about $4.50, compared with $1.50. Going to the movies, once a couple of bucks, is now about...