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Unfortunately, Billy Crystal wasn't so lucky in Running Scared. The growth of stubble which, I assume, was supposed to make his character Detective Danny Costanzo more believable as a tough Chicago vice cop, only made me want to take a napkin and wipe it off like a two-year-old's chinfull of chocolate milk...
...seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine. To help the medicine go down, there is often a spoonful of sweetener (not sugar, naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers. As a refresher after bathhouse treatments, guests find cellophane-packaged blue toothbrushes--toothpaste already applied. Many find the week-long stay a real mind emptier. Returning home to Steamboat Springs, Colo., says Noel Hefty, 38, "I got off the plane, got in my car and couldn't remember...
Eliminating deductions for IRA contributions. Individual taxpayers would no longer be able to deduct up to $2,000 in annual contributions, though they would still be allowed to defer taxes on the interest they earn on their accounts. The committee decided to wipe out much of the IRA benefit because the accounts are expected to cost the Government some $13 billion this year, and it has never been proved that they prompt consumers to save more. But banks and mutual funds, which together hold a large chunk of the $250 billion in IRA accounts, want to shoot down this part...
...INFINITY), Young announced in the school office, "This is a revolution." Doris, telling some teachers that there was to be a surprise birthday party, lured 167 schoolchildren and adults into a first-grade classroom, where they stood at gunpoint in frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because it's a nice little Mormon town where people won't let anything happen to their kids...
...Kawakubo of Comme des Garons) but by a brace of younger, less familiar talent. Although the so-called Japanese look has got roughed up--even as it has been ripped off--by the fashion establishment, and much of the fashion press tries to write it off and wipe it out, the Tokyo shows demonstrate a true trade surplus of design vitality. Tokyo may not be fully a fashion capital yet, but it is well...