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...millions of committed Christians, the late '80s brought agonizing disillusionment. One after another, some of the country's most prominent Protestant televangelists revealed themselves as pious pretenders, driven by lust or avarice or unsaintly ego. Perhaps most distressing was the ammunition the scandals gave to the skeptical and scornful. While erstwhile believers in Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman winced at the exposes of dalliance and the unconvincing protestations of repentance, countless other Americans were laughing...
Offering stunning graphics and a stylish design, the Macintosh caught on well in the home and school markets, where Apple's machines now outsell IBM's by a two-to-one margin. Big Blue has always been frustrated in those markets. In the mid-'80s, IBM offered the PCjr, a stripped-down version of its best seller, but the machine flopped because it couldn't operate many of the heavy- duty software programs designed for the PC. Yet IBM has virtually locked Apple out of the office market, mainly because IBM's operating software has been adopted...
...over the powers of darkness and evil," Picasso had pompously announced in 1957. Well, fine, wrote Reinhardt, but "my painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil." How he would have loathed the market-and- genius cultism of the '80s! He defined art -- his own and others' -- by negations. He took to an extreme the sphinx's riddle of early Modernism, the question that leads an artist along the edge of the drop where the aesthetic impulse no longer has a toehold in common experience: How much can I jettison...
...success of Rabbit Ears has a fairy-tale quality of its own. The company is the brainchild of Mark Sottnick, 46, a former high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who began making children's films in the early '80s. In 1985 he and his partner (and now wife) Doris Wilhousky produced a TV version of one of their favorite children's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown...
Then, for good reasons or bad, we lost sex. It turned out to spread deadly viruses. It offended the born-again puritans. It led to messy entanglements that interfered with networking and power lunching. Since there was no way to undress for success, we switched in the mid-'80s to food. When we weren't eating, we were watching food-porn starring Julia Child or working off calories on the Stairmaster. The body wasn't perfect, but it could, with effort and willpower, be turned into a lean, mean eating machine...