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WHEN COMMERCIALS for Humanoids from the Deep splashed across television screens last spring--with scaly black creatures clawing at curvaceous blondes in bikinis, with that corker of a tag line, "Not for killing. For mating..."--movie monsters made a leap from the resignedly platonic to the unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went...
...there are some construction troubles all the MBTA negotiations in the world can't remedy. Inflation has sent the project's costs soaring: the original $300 million price tag has doubled to more than $600 million...
Though the K-cars are expected to support 50% of Chrysler's total sales this year, the firm has a few other cars in its garage. The flamboyantly plush Imperial, which has not been sold for five years, will be reintroduced. It will carry a $19,500 price tag and be promoted by Frank Sinatra. The rest of the company's product line is less impressive. Its older big cars, such as the Chrysler Cordoba and Dodge Mirada, look like forgotten orphans on the market. The small fuel-efficient Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon are now three years...
...person's bank balance, for example, is immediately raised in line with the previous month's inflation. Every three months, employers must add 80% of the last quarter's inflation to their workers' wages. Informally, rents and the price of a wide range of big-tag goods like autos, television sets and video recorders soon increase as well. All this is part of the world's most comprehensive system of indexation...
...automakers reacted cautiously to the White House package. Detroit numbers men, no doubt using their Japanese-made calculators, found some election-year hyperbole in the $1 billion price tag. Said General Motors President Elliott M. Estes: "We can't quite add all that up yet." Most Detroit officials were disappointed that the President had failed to promise an immediate reduction in Japanese imports, as demanded by the U.A.W., Ford and Chrysler. Groused Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "It seems almost insane to have 300,000 people on the street here, with the Japanese working Saturdays and Sundays...