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...population around the Seabrook area grows dramatically during the summer, said Akey. The six northeastern Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile federally-mandated evacuation zone are popular summer resort areas. Traffic jams during the summer would prevent people from getting to safety if a nuclear accident were to occur, said Akey, adding that even in the winter, when the population is 50,000, evacuation would be difficult because there are no major access routes in the area...
Other department stores, including Nieman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and the Coop, are still in the midst of winter clearance sales. But few of these stores get completely caught up in Presidents' Day fever. Saks Fifth Avenue, for instance, would never resort to gimmicks like dressing up salesmen in colonial costume to honor the nation's first president. Fashion Director Doris Yafste says she feels such actions might not be appropriate to the store's high fashion image. "We would never do that--it's so unsophisticated," she says...
Equally full of contradictions and strange pairings is The Shining (Harvard Film Archive), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller. The novel was an everyday tale of a haunted resort hotel, charting an ordinary man's descent into insanity. In Kubrick's version, the main character (Jack Nicholson) is completely unhinged from the very start of the movie, leaving out much of the book's terrifying psychological horror. Nicholson comes off as a cross between Manson and Carson, a connection made explicit by the film's most famous line, "Heeeere's Johnny...
...stubbornly hung at 7% or higher? The New York task force pithily observes that "job placement programs cannot work without jobs." Pete du Pont, the conservative former Governor of Delaware who is now running for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, proposes that the Government become the employer of last resort, and that might be extremely expensive...
...satisfied with life in the Soviet Union. After both sides balked at a joint appearance, plans were made to tape each group separately. Then the Soviets demanded that the number of participants be reduced. Finally, the refuseniks backed out, afraid of being used for propaganda purposes. As a last resort, Donahue tried to interview a large group of refuseniks away from government studios, but could not find a room big enough for taping the show; even the U.S. embassy turned them down...