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...must know by now from watching the evening news, your image is the number-one topic of conversation among unnamed officials in the White House. Our goal is a quick face-lift: zap those wrinkles of elitism and remind the American people that Ronald Reagan is a sweet guy who can still get tough, an economic radical who knows well enough not to know too much and to leave well enough alone...
THESE RELIGIOUS OVERTONES represent a new twist to the familiar pattern of Hollywood occult and science-fiction. Their space heroes don't win their battles with zap-guns alone; they've got to have the force. Magic spells cannot kill their monsters--the mother has to conquer them with the strength of her faith and love of family. As for their creatures from outer space, they cannot drop dead without being swiftly resurrected...
Damaging information can leak out of any part of a company, from the mail-room to the executive suite. The motive for some informants is money, while for others it may be a desire for revenge. "That former vice president can really zap you," says Industrial Espionage Expert Bequai. Computer programmers are particularly rich sources of secrets because they handle massive amounts of data. Salesmen also spread tidbits as they make their rounds, gossiping and exchanging news...
...remembers, the old Star Trek television series was adept at wrapping up even bigger issues in an hour. This film represents a reversion to that agreeably middlebrow mode rather than a continuation of the first Star Trek movie's overweening manner. This time no one is out to zap the teen market with an imitation Star Wars. The special effects, for example, are modest and traditional, mostly models bopping around star fields. There is an easy sureness about Nicholas Meyer's direction (the sometime novelist also did a good job on Time After Time three years...
Unlike the old rich, Florida's nouveaux have no time for gardening. There are service companies to zap the crabgrass and prune the azaleas. In fact, most new Boca abodes come with preplanted gardens. One developer installed 350 royal palms on his plots. Other services take care of pools and window-washing. There are almost no live-in servants in any of the houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan...