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LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...
...gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more profitable line for American traffickers inclined to avoid exporting their earnings to Colombia...
...Sexier than Oh! Calcutta! and more emotional than A Chorus Line, each of which claims to be Broadway's longest-running show ever -- plus richer in social history and sheer fun -- Ain't Misbehavin' deserves a place alongside them into eternity...
...know why we can't have a sexier dance," complained one Lowell House man to his partner. "This is hard and not that great." His partner, however, who was picking up the swinging moves faster than he, returned, "Well, you just have to fake it, you know...
TIME's board members expressed hope that the improving trade deficit would dampen sentiment in Congress next year to produce a barrier-laden trade bill. Yet Congress may be tempted to pass protectionist measures under the cover of the new, sexier buzz word of competitiveness, according to Board Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and former chief economic adviser to President Carter. Schultze warned that under the patriotic banner of competitiveness, overzealous legislators may fail to differentiate between healthy steps to boost efficiency (example: increased worker training) and potentially harmful measures to shelter industries (example...