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Byrne in person is unassuming and unprepossessing, a still, shrewd presence. "I've seen David in a room full of people, acting like he was reading the newspaper," says Jo Harvey Allen, who enlivens the movie with her periodic appearances as the Lying Woman. "Two weeks later, he would make some comment about who said what, some tiny detail. He doesn't miss anything." On screen, as True Stories' Narrator chatting to the camera or wandering through the action in a red Chrysler convertible, there is something both warming and ominous about him. The voice, maybe: flat, arrhythmic, dispensing stream...
...created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have combined a Disney-style entertainment vision with their own shrewd merchandising sense to produce the latest in suburban shopping temples, the megamall...
...Shrewd negotiating tactics are a familiar part of the Ghermezian success story. The family gained a North American toehold when Patriarch Jacob Ghermezian, now 86, moved to Montreal from Tehran in 1959. The family began selling Oriental rugs door to door, then opened a Montreal retail outlet, which within five years blossomed into a chain of 17 stores. The leap to real estate came in the 1960s, when the Ghermezians began snapping up land in Edmonton for as little as $100 an acre while the oil boom got under way and later sold some of the property...
Although Rogerson was shrewd enough last year to let Butler do his thing, this year the offensive burden will be shared by at least half a dozen different players...
...after two terms, the White House wants to make sure that the seat remains Republican. Nevada is Reagan country. White- haired, pink-cheeked Republican Contender Jim Santini, a former Democratic Congressman, has made good use of commercials that feature the President saying he needs Santini in the Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini...