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...ambitious politician, name recognition is half the battle. By this standard, Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, up for re-election in April 1983, appears to have declared all-out war. She has plastered her name on everything in sight: garbage cans and lampposts, billboards, transit passes, police stations and concert posters. This weekend, for instance, Chicagoans will celebrate "Mayor Byrne's Labor Day Concert and Fireworks," the latest in a long line of personalized events. In this advertising campaign, even the city's name is sometimes omitted, as in "Precinct Headquarters, Jane M. Byrne, Mayor." Said an almost admiring...
...fast. During the past month, the mortgage rate in many areas slipped from 18% to 16%, but auto loans at most commercial banks are sticking close to 20%, and installment credit is still about 18% in most areas of the U.S. Some relief may be in sight, though, for consumers. Irwin Kellner, an economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust, says,that by the end of 1982, auto loans may fall to 13%, and mortgages may be down...
...except for directing traffic and moving military equipment, the Israelis have tried to keep a relatively low profile in Lebanon. The groups of Israeli soldiers that wandered around East Beirut in mid-June like so many gawking tourists are now mostly out of sight. Israeli troops are permitted to buy only soft drinks, candy and cigarettes from street stores and vendors. Fraternization with the Lebanese is prohibited, and Israelis are barred from the restaurants and cafes of East Beirut and Jounieh, a few miles to the north. The army authorities have also warned Israeli soldiers to avoid Lebanon...
...peak of the market in 1980 is now worth only $15,000 or less, a decline of more than 75%. De Beers' sales arm, the Central Selling Organization, saw profits tumble 46% in 1981, and Oppenheimer says that an upturn is not yet in sight...
Lapine is a skillful sight gagster. His staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-the-play is a little masterpiece of smartly timed slapstick. And having his quartet of young lovers lose bits and pieces of their costumes in their befuddled woodland wanderings is an apt comic comment on the larger losses of sexually addled adolescence. Among them, Christine Baranski turns Helena into that most endearing of creatures, a beautiful woman humanized by near terminal klutziness...