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...professional heartthrob James Caan, have all the depth and charm of a puddle. The only reason for going to see such a harmless piece of pudding is that its co-feature, The Heartbreak Kid, is passably good entertainment. This Elaine May-directed ditty takes a funny but not-too-tender look at a poor schmuck who falls in love, after a fashion, with a shallow American beauty, played to perfection by the evershallow Cybill Shepard. My dentist in Long Island says this movie is unkind to Jewish women, but be that as it may, it's definitely worth seeing...
...most popular section, Osaka offers teppan yaki, a preparation of bite-size pieces of tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...
...many foreign governments, have been seeking to hedge their bets. Gulf Oil, for example, in the last year has tried unsuccessfully to buy the CNA insurance business and even the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus. Last week Mobil Oil went it one better by announcing plans to make a tender offer for 51% of the stock of Marcor Inc., the parent company of the Montgomery Ward retail chain and Container Corp., a packaging giant...
Mobil, of course, could go ahead with a tender offer to Marcor stockholders without the consent of Marcor's managers. A Mobil spokesman noted that the company has "had a policy since 1968 of seeking out diversification opportunities." Having taken six years to select a suitable partner, the odds are that Mobil will not give up easily...
...planning consultant who has spent the past ten years investigating the nursing-home industry, they are often ignored, sometimes mistreated and generally exploited. Despite the $3.5 billion in federal, state and private funds that are poured into U.S. nursing homes each year, she writes in her recently published book Tender Loving Greed (245 pages; Knopf; $6.95), conditions in many homes are so bad that they constitute "a national scandal...