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...diaper-service revival began in the environmentally conscious Pacific Northwest, followed by California and the Northeast. The rest of the country is quickly catching up. Business is brisk at Diapers Unlimited of Kalamazoo, Mich., which is expanding its rural routes. So far, better-educated families have been the most likely to sign up with a service, while less informed parents have been slow to switch...
Last year Garry Marshall directed a brisk, witty movie starring Bette Midler as a lottery winner who chases her elusive ticket through Manhattan. The film, shown daily at Disney-MGM Studios park in Florida, lasts three minutes. Beyond that length Marshall has trouble freshening a familiar theme. But maybe predictability is the point of Pretty Woman, which may be a hit just because it descends to its audience's expectations. This is old-fashioned, assembly- line moviemaking without the old panache. It makes one ask, Can't the Japanese do it better? Couldn't anybody...
...women, solitary spinsters picking their way through uneventful but carefully examined lives. Lewis Percy is reminiscent of all of those awkward, hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero, but Lewis is too decent to be mocked...
...picture you see here, John decided on the entrance to the liberal Moscow News. On the sidewalk he encountered a huckster selling an unofficial broadsheet printed in Minsk. The lead article was titled "Raisa Gorbachev: Who Is She? Translation from TIME Magazine." Says Kohan: "He was doing a brisk business at one ruble per copy." Now that's glasnost...
Still, patient readers will find their investment of time worthwhile. The book's leisurely pace contributes to the overall effect of uncanny impersonation. Victorian novels were not brisk because people had plenty of time to spend with them. Now it is difficult to go home after work, put some wood in the fireplace, light candles or gas lamps, and settle in for a long, peaceful evening. The Quincunx suggests how much fun that could...