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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19FORWARD SPIN
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- GAVEL RATINGS
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- Court TV is in clover with the Tyson and Dahmer trials
- running simultaneously, but get set for the encore: Charles
- Manson's parole hearings begin in about two weeks, along with
- opening testimony in the Rodney King case. In April, Court TV
- hopes to cover the trials of the Soviet coupsters.
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- STABLE THINKING
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- Bag Balm, a salve for milk cows with, ah, dry skin, has
- become a popular hand cream. Recently a blacksmith and a chemist
- on New York's Long Island discovered that Dry Hoof Solution, a
- horse medication, strengthens nails. Coming soon as an outlet
- for such products: Barn-Mart.
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- AGING AMERICA BLUES
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- Couples in wedding announcements are getting older. Now an
- academic study reports dispassionately that Playboy centerfolds
- are slowly aging (from 20.3 years in 1954 to 22.3 in 1989).
- Don't ask about college grads.
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- HOLLYWOOD LOGIC
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- Dances with Wolves (running time: three hours, 10 minutes)
- won seven Oscars, so naturally everyone started making longer
- movies: JFK (three hours, eight minutes), Bugsy (2:15), Grand
- Canyon (2:15) and Hook (2:11). Next: Malcolm X (3+). Go for the
- giant popcorn and jumbo soft drinks.
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- PRODUCT CORNER
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- Toymakers are selling nostalgia and reality themes --
- sometimes together. Hasbro is bringing back the original
- foot-high G.I. Joe. Today he speaks Chinese and Arabic and wears
- Desert Storm fatigues. Watch for a Saddam doll that won't quit.
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- ELECTION CALENDAR
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- In 1988 Gary Hart went aground on the Monkey Business. In
- 1992, just when voters are hoping there are no more Gennifers
- out there, Chinese New Year brings the Year of the Monkey.
- Coincidence? Think again.
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