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...pace of takeovers today already rivals the most frantic years of the '80s. So far in 1994, companies have announced deals worth $171.6 billion, nearly 50% more than those of a year ago. At that rate, 1994 would trail only 1989 as the most merger-filled period on record. "The deals have just begun," declares Martin Sikora, editor of the trade journal Mergers & Acquisitions. "The story of entire industries is being rewritten...
...amount of lead in Americans' blood has dropped dramatically in the past decade and a half, says the federal Centers for Disease Control. A shocking 78% of the population had elevated lead levels in the late 1970s; by the end & of the '80s, the number was just 4.3%. The primary reason: government regulations that banned leaded gasoline and lead-based solder...
...bands: Fleetwood Mac and the Partridge Family. But those were about the only coed bands around; now they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer...
...neat trick about Forrest is he can symbolize so many people. New York Times columnist Frank Rich has compared him to Bill Clinton. But Forrest's simple optimism and his success as an entrepreneur and a reviver of American confidence could make him an emblem of '80s conservatism: not only Reaganomics but what Republicans might call Reaganethics. He's E.T. with a little Gandhi thrown in. He's Candide making the best of the worst of all possible worlds. And in his influence on events, from the capture of the Watergate burglars to John Lennon's composition of the song...
Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur? Not bloody likely. An '80s-style artist-brigand, Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took big risks, with film form and finance, that paid off. Cameron is a daredevil director: he goes skydiving without a chute and lands in clover...