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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:36:27 CDT
From: U14780@uicvm.uic.edu
Subject: GH: Update for Mon 09/11/95

      The General Hospital Update for Monday, Sept 11, 1995
          Written By:   kathy%gundog@lbl.gov (Kathy Ellington)

At Lucy's Apartment: Everything's Not so Ducky this Morning
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Lucy chided a hung-over Sigmund on his behavior at last night's party for
Stone.  She caught him guzzling [do ducks guzzle?] champagne and quacking in
a rude manner at Luke.  Her doorbell rings and it's Damian.  They exchange
unpleasantries before he hits her with his new scheme: he wants her to design
a fragrance to sell in his newly-acquired chain of discount stores named Dayco.
Lucy isn't interested but he challenges her at first then points out how
advantageous it would be to expand Deception's customer base.  She says she'll
consider it.

Meanwhile, over at the Brownstone
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Simone visits Tom and brings Tommy.  Tom is snide and snotty, as usual, but
changes his tune when Simone says she's easing up on the terms of the divorce.
She says that Felicia gave her some new insights into children and their dads.
Simone tells Tom that he won't have to move  out of the Brownstone and that
he can have unlimited access to Tommy.  In exchange, he's got to keep his
pointy nose out of her personal life, especially her relationship with Justus.
Tom pulls his wide-eyed and innocent act and agrees to her terms.  Later on he
goes to thank Filly for putting in a good word with Simone.  She invites him
in for some iced coffee and flirting.  That afternoon, he rescues her from a
sudden rainstorm and gets a good look at her soaked torso again.

Thelma & Louise...NOT!
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Over at the lighthouse, Mac and Kevin are readying themselves for Maia's
seminar.  Kevin has had the real Norma Powah fax him notes of her paper; he
has boned up on it and will give the presentation at the seminar.  Mac is
worried that Kevin's going to blow it, but Kev assures him that he'll snow the
yokels.  The theme of the paper is "Sybilla - The Great Mother of the Gods"!
Filly arrives and offers the guys some tips on how to act more like women. She
also demands to know why the guys are dressing up; Kevin gives her the short
version of Lucy's involvement with Madame Maia. Lucy arrives and Mac and Filly
split. She wants to know what Filly was doing there, etc.  Kevin deflects her
attention for the moment and reminds her that she's got a seminar to attend.
She grabs his attention back, though, when she tells him that Damian visited
her that morning with a business proposal. Kevin flares up at the mention of
Damian's name.  They agree to discuss the matter later on.  Lucy whizzes off
to await "Ms. Powah" at the seminar.  Eventually, the boys arrive at the
seminar. Kevin looks just too strange and Mac, although looking incrementally
better than in that first outfit, still looks pretty gruesome.  Kevin gives
the "goddess" lecture and afterwards Maia gives both boys the fish eye while
Lucy looks knowlingly at them.

Boris and Natasha still on trail of Moose and Squirrel
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Damand and Katherine go "nyah-AH-AH" over lunch at the Outback as they discuss
Dayco's plans for ripping Charles Street asunder.  [Okay, I've got a gripe.
There's something fundamentally wrong with this storyline.  Having lived in
Oakland, Calif, for over 20 years and being aware of the critical situation
in the inner city with businesses packing up and moving out due to crime and
low patronage I cannot imagine any city turning down a big chain store in a
depressed section of town.  Or people in a neighborhood banding together to
fight the opening of a new store.  For one thing, big stores like Dayco are
"magnets" for other businesses.  They provide taxes to the city and employment
and convenience to the people in the neighborhood.  Yes, some small businesses
might be forced out but a big chain does greater good than it does evil in a
low-income area.  As for price-gouging, I don't think it's very realistic to
worry about a giant chain (if, for instance, Dayco = Wal-Mart) deciding that,
since it's the only game in the area, it will raise its prices and squeeze
more money out of the poor people who shop there.  Stupid.  If prices become
too high, then people will do what they did before the big store moved in,
take the bus to another part of town and shop someplace else!  And wasn't the
Charles Street Foundation set up to help SMALL business owners get a footing?
I would presume that the Foundation would fund more "service" businesess such
as beauty shops, barbers, dry cleaners, pizzerias, cafes, etc.  It doesn't
seem to me that the writers thought this scheme out very carefully.  You??]

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