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This reliance on the success of one or two films is unique to MGM and to this year--the studio should have a full slate again in 1998--but it does epitomize the industry's new dependence on blockbusters.
And I thought about being launched off the horse and all the other stuff that happened that same year--the time I fell out of a tree in my neighbor's yard, the time I fell 20 feet from a hay loft and landed unhurt on a barn floor covered with straw; the time I wrecked a minibike or fell into a ravine after trying to swing one-handed on a tree vine, like I'd just seen Johnny Weismuller do in a Tarzan movie.
The Post reports that Dade County, Florida, passed an ordinance last year--the first of its kind in the country--requiring businesses with more than 100 parking spaces to provide at least two spots for "stroller parking."
The WP lead notes that U.S. wages and benefits rose 3.5 percent in the last year--the biggest one-year gain since 1993.
Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.