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...money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank in Viet-Nam, so poorly received that it changed its name to Year of the Tiger, and John Wayne's hilariously wrongheaded The Green Berets, with its famous climax of the sun setting in the east.) 1978 brought three pictures -- Coming Home, The Boys in Company C and The Deer Hunter...
...Favorite Year, Jeff Daniels in The Purple Rose of Cairo -- each played an actor forced to project his romantic persona into real life. There are few things funnier or more touching than the sight of a performer's image slipping down around his knees while he tries to yank it into place before anyone notices he is only human...
...competitors based on other alcoholic beverages. Detroit's Stroh Brewery produces White Mountain, a cooler made from malt and flavorings. Champale makes a similarly derived cooler in pineapple- coconut and three other varieties. The crowding has already produced the beginnings of a shake-out, which prompted Coors brewery to yank its Colorado Chiller off the market last February...
...loans this year. M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow warns that the austerity measures that Mexico has endured to pay interest on its debt could make it politically popular for the country's leadership to repudiate the loans. Said Thurow: "What better way for the Mexicans to tweak the Yank's nose than to default on all of the debts." That could set off a financial crisis in the U.S., where many large banks still have multibillion-dollar loans to Mexico on their books. De Vries said, however, that financiers were likely to work out yet another package of new credit with...
Coca-Cola, which last week reported third-quarter profits of $196 million, up 12% from a year ago, was far from ready to call New Coke a goof or to yank the heavily promoted product from the market. The company claims that the combination of New and Classic Coke has made the world's leading soft drink more popular than ever. It also pointed out that New Coke is outselling Classic Coke 2 to 1 in Canada and as much as 10 to 1 in Puerto Rico, the only places outside the continental U.S. where it is currently available...