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Though a few films, like the 3-D Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, seemed to shrivel in Jedi's glare, others gained: many people who could not get into the Skywalker saga took second best and picked a film playing near by. The movie business was not the only one making money from the picture, however. Stores selling Jedi toys, books and T shirts were also busy. "Return of the Jedi items are flying out of here," said Marian Every, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in Washington. Pepperidge Farm reported brisk sales of Jedi cookies: chocolate...
...Associate Editor Richard Corliss's story analyzes that competition and explores where television is headed. Contributing to that industry story was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who interviewed network, cable and advertising executives. "Network television faces threatening competition," Ainslie concludes, "but few people I talked to expect it to shrivel up and disappear." On the contrary, says Senior Writer Gerald Clarke, a frequent television reviewer, who wrote the main story: "The mini-series is what television should be producing, and despite its flaws, The Winds of War is absorbing, serious entertainment...
...Falklands factor wanes, Thatcher remains her self-assured self. Unemployment is 13.2%, the industrial base continues to shrivel and growth may not exceed 1.5% in 1983; still she boasts that her policies have brought the inflation rate down to 6.3%, the lowest in ten years. She continues to promise that she will "put the 'Great' back in Britain." Thatcher has taken on the powerful trade unions and thus far has not come a cropper. At the same time, she has staunchly resisted industry's pleas to soften her austere monetarism. She has also been lucky. The Labor Party opposition...
Blade Runner, like its setting, is a beautiful, deadly organism that devours life; and Ford, the cockily engaging Star Warrior of Raiders of the Lost Ark, allows his heroic stature to shrivel inside it. In comparison, Hauer's silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford's victimized flatfoot. Because of this imbalance of star roles, and because this drastically recut movie has a plot that proceeds by fits and stops, Blade Runner is likely to disappoint moviegoers hoping for sleek thrills and derring-do. But as a display terminal...
Board Member Greenspan warned, however, that the developing downturn could prove to be deeper and longer than expected if capital outlays by business begin to shrivel in the months ahead. So far, most spending plans by businessmen on new plants and equipment have not been shelved or scrapped, and companies are generally pushing ahead with investment programs. Yet Greenspan feared that any dramatic new shock to the economy, such as an unexpected bankruptcy of a major European bank, triggered by a Polish default on its loans, could easily lead to widespread cancellations of business spending plans. But Robert Triffin...