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...other company has gained more from the rage for Mexican dining than Louisville-based Chi-Chi's (fiscal 1982 sales: $35.8 million), the growth champion of Latin chains. The five-year-old firm opened its first unit in a converted A & P supermarket in Minneapolis, and now has 73 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. The red-hot expansion pushed Chi Chi's profits to $4.5 million in its latest fiscal year, nearly double the level of the previous year...
...COULD HAVE been a fascinating combination of sleazy artistry. George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead), the Pittsburgh poet of zombie cannibalism, and Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining), the man who took horror out of the subconscious and put it back on America's supermarket shelves; one of the last of the true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy...
...segments in Working, though the transitions between them sometimes seem arbitrary and strained. We move from Calnek's insterstate trucker to Anne Hailey's telephone operator, predictably enough, via the former's casual phone call; the plaintive 30-years' teacher unable to cope with modernity (Jeannie Affelder) announces a supermarket checkers' number by nostalgically recalling a favorite student ("She works down at the Star Market now.") Then again, a few juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want...
...method employs a very low-powered laser, somewhat like the one used to read price codes at supermarket check-out counters, and directs it at sags, bags and furrows. The full course often to 16 treatments can cost as much as $1,000, and considerably more when the recommended monthly "booster" sessions are included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle...
...been murdered by remote control, by a poisoner who had no way of guessing in even the most general sense who his victims might be-men or women, young or old-and could not have cared. Six bottles of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol were found in five drugstores and one supermarket; one store was in north Chicago, but the others were in communities in the western suburbs, strung out along a rough north-south line near Illinois State Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle...