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Some followers of Masterpiece Theatre fear that its peak is past, that new offerings lack the luster of the glory days in the '70s and '80s. But Baker thinks of the series as a necessary antidote to insulting commercial programming: "The week all three networks had Amy Fisher shows on revealed absolute contempt for the human race." And so, as he turns out his single page for each week, he humbly paraphrases Peter De Vries' acid remark about Henry James and hopes that he will not chew more than...
...advent of such an '80s-style fight had Wall Streeters in a spasm of nostalgia for a decade in which it seemed that deals had to be mean if they were going to be big. Propelled by Diller's bid and constant rumors of new suitors, Paramount stock rose 7 3/8 a share, to close at 75 7/8 last week. Arbitragers, who purchase the stock of takeover targets in the hope that deals will be completed, welcomed the battle and became voracious buyers. Fee- hunting investment bankers scrambled to draw other bidders into the fray and grab some...
...that it does not already own of Travelers, the insurance company. So too were AT&T's $12.6 billion deal for McCaw Cellular in August and the $6 billion merger agreement between drug firms Merck and Medco last July. "These deals are boring," says a disgruntled veteran of the '80s. "Today, you actually have to sell the stuff on the fundamentals" -- how well companies fit together...
Moore said Widener once had nearly 800 books in one day to dry, although since the machine's arrival at the library in the late 80s, its full capacity has never been needed...
Like a troubadour adrift on the blue highways of America, John Mellencamp has hitched his muse to the hopes and broken dreams of the heartland. Even before the mid-'80s, when he renounced the pop artifice of his John Cougar past and took back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee...