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Then there was the mutual odium between the late Ayatullah Khomeini of Iran and the country he kept calling "the Great Satan." So thoroughly did American politicians and citizens reciprocate Khomeini's loathing that U.S. policy in the '80s tilted toward none other than Saddam Hussein. The enemy of our enemy was our friend. It turns out that the enemy of our enemy became our even greater enemy, because Saddam, more than Khomeini, is bent on aggressive territorial expansion. That should have come as no surprise. After all, 10 years before Saddam invaded Kuwait, he invaded Iran...
...relocation backlash is just one symptom of the gradually changing attitude toward work. Employees are also beginning to balk at the long office hours that are the legacy of the '80s' corporate retrenchments that pared staffs and deepened the work loads of those who remained behind. Corporate loyalty is further strained by the growing realization that no matter how hard an employee works, no job is truly secure. "People feel 'the hell with it,' " says consultant Harragan. "They've had it with being overworked...
...this feel like a recession, or is it just me?" For several months, that question has been nagging at millions of Americans as the U.S. economy poked along in the slow lane. From New England computer makers to California missile builders, many industries that boomed in the go-go '80s have slumped in the slo-mo '90s. But the sudden spurt in the cost of crude oil brought on by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait -- from about $20 per bbl. on Aug. 1 to a high of more than $28 per bbl. last week -- threatened to turn an already painful...
That difficulty is reflected in the 16 years required to created The Two Jakes. Originally scheduled for release in the mid-80s, the film became mired in disagreements between three of four of Chinatown's creative forces. Producer Robert Evans, screen writer Robert Towne, and Nicholson. (Polanski, according to Nicholson, was not involved in the process, partly because of cost overruns). When The Two Jakes finally made it to production, Nicholson had assumed the directing responsibilites. In addition, the freshman director took it upon himself to rewrite parts of the script as he went along...
That's how Warhol remembers Colacello in The Andy Warhol Diaries (807 pages), published in 1989, which is not exactly how Colacello remembers Colacello in this 514-page nag. Dueling diaries may be the perfect '80s moment, in which two shallow people recount in mind-numbing detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better...