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Question: Can a movie about an earnest but occasionally snaky reporter doing a sociological investigation of health clubs (Are they "the singles bars of the '80s"?) support a sober inquiry into journalistic ethics? Short answer: Are you kidding? Long answer: Check out the movie imperfectly titled Perfect, in which John Travolta is, as usual, miscast, this time as the journalist; Jamie Lee Curtis is rendered grim by the unaccustomed effort of thought; and Director James Bridges (who wrote the script with Aaron Latham) proves he has no rhythm. As a concept in search of a plot, the picture will infuriate...
...Well, to a lot of people, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous is an equivalent milestone." Small wonder. The loosely knit group, which now comprises more than 1 million people, one-third of whom are women, has firmly established itself as the most effec tive way for alcoholics to stay sober--and alive. One study estimates that 34% of those who join beat the bottle...
...those unwilling to go. Boston's Fenway Park no longer allows vendors to hawk beer in the stands, and set a two-beer limit at concession counters. Many parks, like Shea and Yankee stadiums in New York, stop selling beer after the seventh inning to let woozy fans sober up for the trip home...
...only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important to both of them, as crucial to the administrative maintenance of their place in society as the hiring of the immigrant gardeners who keep the clouds of azaleas around the house in River Oaks blooming, as significant as the notices on the fences reading...
...critical problem with this strategy: it is a Republican President whose program is now before the Congress, and any G.O.P. attempt to delay House proceedings would slow down the implementation of his agenda. That agenda will be under consideration again this week, Wright said, "when tempers have cooled and sober, second thoughts have prevailed...