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...ought to get together." Conable, too, has dreamed of a Dole-Rostenkowski tax bill to resolve the heated issue in a bipartisan manner. Said he to Rostenkowski: "The ball is in your court." Rostenkowski smiled and said: "I have to talk to Jim Wright." Dole picked up the $20 tab. Next time, he said, it would be the Democratic chairman's turn to play host...
...expense could be astronomical. Implanting the device will cost upwards of $30,000, and home equipment and maintenance will cost many thousands more. The Government now pays more than $1 billion a year to dialyze more than 50,000 patients with kidney disease. Should it also pick up the tab for artificial heart implants...
...news was enough to send any self-respecting member of Parisian cafe society lunging for the bicarbonate of soda. Maxim's, the world-renowned, gastronomic masterpiece on the city's tony Rue Royale, was sold last week. The new proprietor: Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin. The $20 million tab was steep even for Cardin, 58, who lately seems more interested in haute finance than haute couture. He has had designs on the art nouveau establishment since 1978, when Maxim's present owners, Louis and Maggie Vaudable, agreed to lend the eatery's venerable name to a Cardin...
...Shelby), who built himself the largest single film studio outside Los Angeles, announces in Variety that Living Legend, which he produced and starred in, has grossed $11,284,028. John Waters (Baltimore), who earned a cult reputation with the fecally funky Pink Flamingos, is going respectably R rated with Tab Hunter and Polyester. John Sayles' no-budget comedy, Return of the Secaucus 7 (North Conway), has earned $1.2 million in small theaters around the country. And a group of ornery independents have organized to show their films in a Manhattan art house. Viewers who might otherwise catch Caveman will...
...Polyester, Francine Fishpaw (Divine) presides over a bunch rowdier by far than any Dark Age cavalry. Her husband runs a movie house specializing in kiddie porn; her daughter trucks around with vicious punks; her son is a criminally insane foot fetishist. Only Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), Francine's dream lover, offers any hope for spiritual regeneration, for he is everything her husband is not: handsome, slim, roughly debonair, and the owner of an art drive-in that shows Marguerite Duras triple bills. Best of all, he is in love with her . . . or so it seems. Francine should have known...