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...winner for biggest Broadway success of the year is . . . the box office. During the 1989-90 season, which ended last week, receipts at Broadway's 36 stages reached a record $283 million, up 8% from last year and 48% from the depth of the slump in the mid-'80s. The past season featured the Tony Award-winning musicals City of Angels and Grand Hotel, along with many major stars, including Dustin Hoffman, Kathleen Turner and Tyne Daly...
...nearest rivals from France and Japan. Nowhere is this activity more evident than in the U.S. The U.S. Commerce Department puts total direct foreign investment in the U.S. at $390 billion, of which $123 billion is British, double the amount for second-place Japan. At the start of the '80s, Britain's stake in the U.S. was under $10 billion. Of some 20 FORTUNE 500 companies taken over by foreigners in the past five years, more than half fell to British buyers...
...that we should buy so enthusiastically into the business of generationnaming. While allegedly selfish '80s students were not too interested in protesting the activities of the U.S. government, they spent a lot more time organizing in areas where they had real influence. Across the country, student pressure has forced university divestment from firms doing business with South Africa, and in New York state, students have successfully challenged annual tuition hikes...
...that point where Kingsley Amis can be introduced as Martin Amis' father. For those who have forgotten, he was the most talented satirist among Britain's angry young men of the 1950s. He is also the novelist who has kept the sharpest edge through the '60s, '70s and '80s. Class and sex wars are his specialties, and he is a scarred veteran of both. Harry Caldecote, the retired librarian in Amis' 20th novel, The Folks That Live on the Hill, should be beyond all that fiddle. "He had taken an early retirement deal just ahead of the new technology," writes...
...notion is afoot that the 1990s will be to saving what the '80s were to debt. Good. We need to save more...