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Babies seem to be everywhere these days. Current movie fare offers Three Men and a Baby, Baby Boom and She's Having a Baby. Even television commercials are using giggling, gurgling newborns to shill for grownup products such as carpets, insurance and automobile tires. Yet despite the highly visible new crop of infants, not all Americans are sure they want to help fuel the baby mania. Observes UCLA Psychologist Jacqueline Goodchilds: "Many people are questioning the assumption that fulfillment for a woman is having children...
...character can be engaging, then Tolins' Sweeney is engaging. Edwards' Mrs. Lovett is hilarious, as are Johnson's lascivious, foppish beadle and Arthur Fuscaldo's Pirelli, a mountebank rival barber. Wolman's judge is surprisingly sympathetic, and Michael Starr is strong as Tobias, Mrs. Lovett's fiercely devoted young shill...
...woman who we originally stopped also refused the currency. She must have thought that the guy with the wad was a shill. Or maybe, she was just like the hundreds of other people we stopped who did not want to look like they needed the money. Maybe they were all too busy to stop for a while and smell the roses. Maybe they were all too accustomed to thinking they can get something for nothing, only to find out that you have to sign up for seven months of Physicist's Weekly in order to get a free gift. Maybe...
...Hogan, 46, who lives with his wife and three of their five children in a Sydney suburb, was an all-round master of no trade until he caught on in 1972 as a comedian on Australian TV. Previously best known to Americans as Australian tourism's charming shill ("G'day"), he wrote Dundee and put up money to help make it. So what's next? Offers are pouring in from everywhere, and of course he's working on "Crocodile" II. G'day indeed. Just now, his days are bloody marvelous...
...editorial the Detroit News argued that Michigan needed higher oil prices "like a hole in the head," and charged that Bush had emerged as a "traditional Republican Daddy Oilbucks." The flap made Bush look almost like a shill for oil producers (he is a former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps...