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...says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures.) She was ridiculous in the idiotic desert island saga Blue Lagoon, possibly because she felt ridiculous; she did a lot of her acting while walking in a trench cut in the sand so that Co-Star Chris Atkins, 18, could appear to be taller than...
...looks like a gangster. From his neck to his knees he seems like an Englishman who has just stepped out of his neighborhood pub into the London fog. But below his knees, where his army pants emerge to meet his khaki sneakers, he looks Chinese. His costume-fedora, trench coat and army uniform-creates the illusion of a man who has been cut in thirds and pasted back together...
Business is also booming for carriage trade retailers like Neiman-Marcus of Dallas and Saks Fifth Avenue. For weeks, their branches have been brisk with crowds of well-heeled shoppers. In Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan, free-spending shoppers are readily paying $545 for Burberry trench coats or $1,000 for life-size hand-carved replicas of China's eight immortal mandarins. At the Younkers department store in Omaha, one customer recently bought seven Yves Saint Laurent blouses as gifts for $400 each...
...warring capitals with an agreement in principle for freeing 63 merchant ships trapped in the Shatt al Arab waterway. Said he: "The first ray of hope." In Washington, a high State Department official was less sanguine: "It's a bloody low-level conflict, a bit like the trench warfare of World War I. It could...
...surface of Tethys, a middle-size Saturnian moon, is cut by a strange, sinuous trench, perhaps the result of a sharp blow delivered on the opposite side of its globe, which is dappled with craters and highlands. Dione resembles the earth's moon, marked by all sorts of craters, big and little, features that look like our moon's "seas," and ice flows, rills and highlands. Iapetus, one of the most curious of Saturn's moons-one hemisphere is five or six times as bright as the other -was seen only from a vast distance...