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...plans go on to bring Woodward's ugly biography of the late John Belushi to the screen, it looks like Woodward will be lucky to get some ABC. After School Special co-star to fill the Wood-ward-Redford role. If Woodward's last race seemed like a charity racing event, his role now seems more like just another competitor in a journalistic Death Race 2000, racking up points by busting lives and memories with only an incidental distinction between duly-elected renegade politicians and drug-crazed pop superstars...
Joseph B. Ward Seattle...
...after nearly four years of retrenchment, Nestlé (1983 sales: $12.7 billion) is once again hungry to add American names to its list of bestselling brands, which includes Nescafé, Quik, Nestea and L'Oréal. In January, Nestlé acquired Ward-Johnston, the candy company that produces such matinee munchies as Raisinets, Goobers and Sno-Caps, and in April it signed an agreement to buy Hills Bros, coffee. Last week the company announced plans to purchase Los Angeles-based Carnation, the leading maker of evaporated milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will...
Vulnerable, brave and loopy−a panicky paradigm of middle-age desperation−this creature is again on glorious display as Sarah in Love Streams. In it, Cassavetes also creates an answering male character, Sarah's brother, who has taken up womanizing in an attempt to ward off the chill he feels gathering in his bones. It is not an entirely successful characterization, partly because such males have become a cliché, but mostly because Cassavetes, the obsessed film maker, does not really understand certain less exalted obsessions that may distractingly come upon a man. His character neither fully...
...chances for pregnancy are best when the eggs are retrieved during the three-to four-hour period when they are fully mature. At Bourn Hall, women remain on the premises, waiting for that moment to occur. Each morning, Steptoe, now 71 and walking with a cane, arrives on the ward to check their charts. The husband of one patient describes the scene: "Looking at a woman like an astonished owl, he'll say, 'Your estrogen is rising nicely.' The diffidence is his means of defense against desperate women. They think he can get them pregnant just by looking at them...