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From the moment Minolta's sleek Maxxum camera arrived on the market in January 1985, the hot-selling, auto-focusing 35-mm instrument seemed immune to the photographic-equipment industry's usual cutthroat discounting practices. One reason, some consumers claim, is that Minolta coerced its retailers to charge a minimum of $319.95 for the Maxxum and $189.95 for its AF-Tele. Last week John Troncelliti, a suburban Philadelphia barber, filed a national class- action suit against the Japanese manufacturer, charging that it ordered retailers to keep prices high or lose the right to sell Minolta's line...
...that is the source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence. The impact of its neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile...
...reader converts, among them Governor Sheffield, who admits he prefers the News even though "they write horrible stories about me." Advertisers too are climbing aboard, raising the News's market share to a healthy 65%. As for the once depleted and demoralized staff, it is reveling in the sleek new building, with its workout room, outdoor running track and the latest in computer technology. Marveled a visiting Fanning as she inspected the $8 million printing press: "It seems so big league...
...deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl...
...least a few infants are sleeping in 24-karat-gold-plated cribs, which Lewis of London, a New York City-based chain, sells for $1,995. Clown, a children's store in Chicago, offers a $42 sterling-silver toothbrush. And thousands of tots are being wheeled around in sleek Aprica strollers from Japan, which cost...