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Farrah Fawcett as Orson Welles? Well, not quite in bulk, but maybe a wee bit in skills. Asked to perform in a TV commercial for Fabergé hair products bearing her name, Farrah, 34, wrote the ad, okayed the cinematographer, had a hand in picking the props and even chose her costar, ex-New York Jet Joe Namath, 38. "I saw the ad in my mind and it came out exactly as I wanted it," says Farrah. "It has a sense of humor." The 30-sec. spot calls for Farrah to take a shower with Namath, with whom she teamed...
Brian Magrane, 38, chairman of the Economic Development Industrial Corporation in Lynn, Mass. (pop. 78,741), was feeling proud and elated as he drove home in the wee hours. His high school class reunion earlier that night had been a rousing success, and in three days a contract was to be signed for the final phase of his proudest achievement: a fiveyear, $194 million renewal of Lynn's downtown. Vast, empty Victorian brick factories, relics of the Lynn's long reign as "Shoe Capital" of the nation, were being recycled to serve a reawakening city as offices, stores...
Though undergraduates make up only about a quarter of his total business, they are by far the majority in the wee hours--say 3:30 to 6 a.m., when, as one counter employee puts it, the store gets "weird, but boring." Harvard's influence on the franchise is more noticeable during the summer, when business drops 30 per cent. The peaks and lows produced by reading period, finals, and the stretches in between when students get locked into a pattern of nightly munchie-hunting also affect sales...
Just when things are getting really bad. Yale student Saybrook Pierson (Wee Triharder), annoyed because he hasn't got a bit of studying done all weekend what with the noise and everything, calls in Archie Epps (John Fox) and John Fox (Archie Epps) to quiet things down. Epps and Fox respond immediately by reminding the rowdy students about some obscure rule concerning alcohol use. A committee is formed. Nobody pays attention, though, and the parties continue...
...there has been a certain decline in the nation's moral values--the proliferation of pornography, as Will notes, serves as evidence. But government is most often impotent in dealing with matters of personal conduct: the liquor business thrived under prohibition; marijuana dealers have no problems peddling the illegal wee. Will argued, however, that laws can affect people's ethics, citing two examples: the Civil War, and the Civil Rights legislation of a century later. In the case of the former, Will said Abraham Lincoln decided than an immoral act--the spread of slavery--had gone too far. Lincoln enforced...