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...stable are still in place, the blinders guarding him from anything bitterly dark or blindingly light, anything that might make him rear up and head off the track. His is a Roone Arledge view of the world; should one have the luck to visit bobsledding one week, take in cliff-diving in Acapulco the next, and perhaps watch the pounding of the Firecracker 500, then one will have seen sport. McPhee's corollary: the variety of human experience means simply that if he can capture one of everything-accountant and orange grower, chef and outdoorsman, barber and candlestick maker-then...
...right now he appears to be thinking that the bottom of the recession may have passed. It might be a while, however, before he starts consuming in earnest. Said Rudolph Glin, vice president of Milwaukee's Boston Store: "It's like clawing your way up a cliff with your fingernails. It is still tough to sell, but the consumer is motivated to buy if it is an item of real value." The American customer is currently digging out of debt and is very careful about how he spends his money, but he is also again beginning to cast...
...Randolph Powell), an unscrupulous lawyer whom J.R. used and then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes, who swore on his daddy's grave that he would avenge the family honor and "stop J.R. for good...
...plotting here is elegant. The motives all touch on Dallas'pervasive themes: sex (Sue Ellen and Kristin), money (Alan Beam and Vaughn Leland) and family (Bobby and Cliff). For the mystery's solution to be equally impeccable, the culprit must come from inside the family. This would permit many of the new episodes to revolve around the altered relationships of the assailant and the other Ewings, especially J.R., who could be expected to devise an ingenious form of revenge. But Capice suggests otherwise: "The ripple effect from the revelation will be minimal. We'll move...
...events of the coming season, this much is known (readers who wish to defer these surprises until they are revealed on-screen are advised to proceed directly to the next para graph): the Ewing family is intact. Both Sue Ellen and Cliff I will be arrested and released. While J.R. recuperates, Bobby will assume the presidency of Ewing Oil and become obsessed with power, thus putting a severe strain on his marriage. Pamela will find her mother, a mysterious rich lady, and Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly), the Southfork Ranch foreman, will find his father. Cliff will establish a new political...