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...Light Up My Life is cynically conceived; the film's inspirational message and big emotional moments owe more to recent hit movies than they do to any human reality. If Brooks has any genuine passion, it's apparent only when he shamelessly stops his film dead to plug the five ballads he has composed for the sound track. The sentiments in the songs are all canned-but then again so is Pepsi...
...Wantok (literally, "One Talk," but meaning people who speak the same language), a weekly publication in pidgin distributed by Papua New Guinea's Protestant and Catholic churches. Until 1972, many of the natives bought such publications only for the paper, which they used to roll their pungent plug tobacco. But then Wantok began carrying the adventures of the Phantom translated into pidgin. (Sample dialogue: "Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau?" Meaning: "Phantom, you are a true friend of mine. Are you able to help me now?") Circulation of the paper began to climb...
...dominates the show that even the musicians tend to dominate the actors, performing on top of a platform which towers over the stage. From there the musicians almost become part of the plot. The bandleader and an MC even stop the proceedings at times to announce a song or plug a performer...
...raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then waits for an instrument-panel light to shine, telling him that he can step on the accelerator to start the engine. At 0° F., that can take a full minute...
...Angeles magazine has a weight problem. The glossy monthly's 296-page August issue is so loaded with ads that readers have a hard time dogging a feature story through the thickets of plug. "We're beginning to turn some advertisers down," admits Seth Baker, president of CHC Corp., the magazine's parent company. "We're going to have to be more selective...