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...solution, it was perfect: the Golden Arches pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
...strategic guidance, Dodge became founder and chairman of American Cablesystems, an enterprise now worth more than $200 million. For his part, Croll became the communications specialist within TA. Of the 45 fledgling companies he has nursed along, he says, only one, a cable-television firm, has ever gone sour...
...scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then served sweet- and-sour at a Chinese restaurant in Middle-Earth. "I require the solace of shadows," he purrs to the benighted Lili. "Neath the skin, we are already one." And he leads her into a dance that black magically turns this virgin into Salome, fit for a satyr king. The film has grown...
Sean Penn is tops. Madonna's bad boy was a wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film...
That would be an encouraging development in view of private growling lately from both sides that they can do very well without another summit, thank you. But even if both sides agree to keep planning for a summit, it will take much more to dispel the sour atmosphere that has developed between the superpowers since the Geneva meeting. In fact it may tax diplomats' ingenuity to keep relations from deteriorating further, and fast...