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...their trailers; they hate their scripts; they especially dislike directors like Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino)--once aspiring, now merely woebegone. He yearns to replace his current star, a marvelously hateful Winona Ryder, with a more pliable model. A few keystrokes using a new computer program--click, click, click--and--presto!--he has the perfectly beautiful but only virtually real Simone (a digitally modified Rachel Roberts...
Take a few numbers from the export column and a few statistics from the retail sales column, put them together, and presto! You've got yourself an economic recovery in long-suffering Japan. At least that's the rosy scenario painted by government leaders desperate to shore up their sagging popularity. The trouble is that to Japanese, the calculations look suspiciously like voodoo economics. "If the economy is getting better, we sure don't feel it," says 59-year-old Kinuyo Otsu while passing a Christian Dior shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. "Our husbands' jobs aren't stable enough...
...forget to buy the recording, however. Musicians need to make a living too. SPY RAM James Bond would have loved this crafty little item. Targus' Go-Anywhere ($80 to $150) looks like one of those highlighters students use to underscore their textbooks' juicy parts. But open it up and--presto!--you've got a digital storage device with a USB plug on its business end. Slot it into a computer, and download up to 128 MB of data, music or pictures faster than you can mix a dry martini...
...does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend-setting twentysomethings. To reach that desirable market, Nike Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly jumped on the bandwagon, using Lau to plug its Engineered Jeans line. Moreover, his appeal to the hip-hop generation seems global. His limited-edition plastic dolls have made it into toy collector shops in New York City and London. Young...
...brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...