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Obviously topless but discreetly shaded in the mist, a modern Lady Godiva clad only in blue jeans rides a stallion beside the roiling sea. A bare-chested man jumps on the horse with her and together they ride off, silhouetted in the sunset. Though all three TV networks rejected this sexy commercial for Jordache jeans, it made a debut on three independent New York City stations last week. Similar print ads featuring tame if teasing topless couples wearing only Jordache jeans have blossomed in women's magazines and the Sunday New York Times. The Times at first refused...
Keaton's decline was ghoulishly documented by the industry that caused it. He appeared as increasingly deteriorating versions of himself in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). He turned his anger inward and drank himself to distraction. Yet he also lived long enough to become the somewhat puzzled darling of academics and film historians. Samuel Beckett sought him out and wrote a screenplay, Film (1964), in which Keaton starred. When the two met for the first time, they discovered that they had almost nothing to talk about...
Protectionism is the heart of the productivity problem, he believes, because resources are blocked from moving from sluggish industries to more productive ones. He favors pulling investments out of "sunset" industries and allowing them to go under, while providing generous aid and retraining programs to laid-off workers. Says Thurow: "If we cannot learn to disinvest, we cannot compete in the modern growth race...
...girl in the 1900s." The film is a strange, dreamlike reminiscence of days when migrant harvesters followed steam-driven threshing machines through the wheatfields of the Texas Panhandle. As in a dream, a flickering story line is overwhelmed by visual images?blowing wheat, threshers outlined against a sunset, locusts darkening the sky. Linda's Second Avenue voice threads through the film, speaking a moody narration, much of which is her own improvisation: "From the time the sun went up, till it went down, theys was workin' all the time . . . Just keep goin'. If you didn't work, they'd ship...
Along with the rest of the Islamic world, Iranians last week began their monthlong observance of Ramadan, when devout Muslims are expected to fast from dawn until sunset. The new revolutionary government in Tehran did its best to ensure that the fast was observed Restaurants and snack bars closed during the daylight hours. The Minister of Interior ordered police to arrest anybody caught eating, drinking or smoking in public. Shutters were also drawn on the country's cinemas and few remaining theaters. Regular radio and television programming was suspended in favor of religious readings from the Koran...