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...outset, director Baker craftily disguises the plot beneath the cloak of family tragedy. Jennifer (Meg Tilly), a small town ballerina, has gone to study dance in New York, where she meets her soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...
...Jennifer doesn't give much thought to a friend's remark not to touch her because "something's wrong with her." Nor is she troubled by the unusually heated quarrels between her father and brother. But the incidental occurrences begin to follow a menacing pattern: An irate motorist trashes Stuart's car, a rejected suitor smashes his own hands...
...milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will produce the biggest non-oil takeover in history, and is expected to double Nestlé's business in the U.S. The transaction will provide a barrel of cash for the heirs of Carnation Founder Elbridge Amos Stuart, who own 35% of the firm...
...spark for the sale came last November; Dwight L. Stuart, 59, left his post as Carnation president, reportedly after a falling-out with Chairman H. Everett Olson, 77. Stuart, who controls as much as 20% of the firm, then decided to start unloading his stock. Rumors began spreading on Wall Street that Carnation was for sale, and by late July, Nestlé Managing Director Helmut Maucher came along with a friendly takeover offer. Meanwhile, investors ran up the price of Carnation stock from about 65 in July to 75½ by the time the deal was announced...
Meanwhile, an internal Sears committee is looking into all sorts of new financial ventures. One plan would turn the company's credit card into a debit card that would automatically deduct the price of purchases from a savings account. Speculates Stuart Greenbaum, a professor of finance at Northwestern: "The Sears credit