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...redecorate a porch, with Sears paint and Craftsman tools, of course. Ads comparing brand-name products, extolling the merits of one over the other, could be dealt with in laborious detail. Says Michael Dann, senior program adviser to ABC's Video Enterprises: "The advertiser who wants to spell out the differences between Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia and Pepto-Bismol is going to get a hell of a lot more time...
...backdrop shifts to fluffy clouds against an azure sky, the voice says, "But France remains calm." A series of happy scenes shows Frenchmen picking grapes, at work in modern factories, riding horses, playing soccer. A crescendo: French-made washing machines, Renault cars, film stars and ballet scenes spell out progress and the good life. Then comes the man who claims responsibility for this idyllic island of well-being in a time of global torment: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 55, pictured at his desk in the Elysée Palace, meeting foreign leaders, affably mixing with ordinary...
...slapstick--creates its own sensibilities. Almost anything can fly in a musical if the songs are good, the dancing snappy, and the jokes, if not hilarious, at least well-timed. The willing suspension of disbelief that lies at the heart of the theater can become practically cryogenic under the spell of all that glitter. Complete strangers start singing in harmony, villains start tapdancing--no one will bat an eye if it's snappy enough. A.W.O.L. has all of the elements required for a good musical--maybe too many--but one begins to suspect that even though the cast and orchestra...
...Toyota, Datsun and Honda spell relief for many American families, they spell crisis for the Big Three U.S. automobile manufacturers. The Chrysler Corporation's crippling drop in sales has turned it into a ward of the government, while Ford's and General Motors' record sales drops have left the two companies begging for help in protecting against a further Japanese on-slaught. Detroit has recently requested that the government help limit imports, so that it can recoup sales and build a base for developing new car lines to compete with its formidable opposition. In response, the Reagan administration has reported...
...California's magic spell really completely broken? Cincinnati's Pursley doesn't think so: "Given a choice between spending the summer swimming outdoors in California or indoors at Cincinnati's Natatorium, all other things being equal. California still looks pretty attractive...