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...idea of attaching advertising supplements to a magazine with plastic wrap caught on in the mid-1980s, though the number has waned because of expensive postal regulations. Even Klein's booklet will be wrapped with only 250,000 or so copies of Vanity Fair (out of a total circulation of about 850,000), and will not be available at newsstands except in Southern California and metropolitan New York...
...ever dream you'd be so successful?") at radio deejays Mark and Brian, stars of a new NBC series. And, of course, she brought baby pictures. After years of experimentation, network television may have finally developed the perfect morning-show host: smart but unassuming, cute but not plastic, the girl next door with a grin that reaches for the rafters. What's more, she gets along with both Bryant and Willard. Who was that Jane person anyway...
When Swatch introduced a limited edition of watches styled like cucumbers, red chilis, and bacon with eggs, the first 5,250 sent to the U.S. were gobbled up at once. While most plastic Swatches sell for around $45, these retail at eight trendy food emporiums from Newport, R.I., to Seattle for $100. But will these tasteful timepieces by Pop painter Alfred Hofkunst appreciate like the graffiti-inspired ones from Keith Haring, offered in 1986 for $50 and now fetching...
...physicians are Doc Jollygoods -- more than capable at their life-and-death jobs, if a bit on the prima donna side. They hardly seem in need of comeuppance, but they get it. In Doc Hollywood, an ambitious young man (Michael J. Fox) with plans to become a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon gets stuck in a small Southern town and soon learns how shallow are his dreams of wealth, prestige and comfort. In The Doctor, a heart surgeon (William Hurt) contracts throat cancer and finds he must endure the impersonal hospital "care" he has administered so blithely...
...wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...