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...town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene invariably gooses a cheer out of its audience -- almost a rebel yell. But its grizzly machismo represents an '80s-movie solution to a '60s for-real enigma: Dirty Harry beats dirty laundry...
EASTERN STANDARD Insider trading, bag ladies, AIDS and nouvelle cuisine -- everything '80s gets skewered, then sentimentalized, in this stylishly acted and wittily observed Broadway satire spawned at the Seattle Repertory...
...Milken chooses to fight the criminal charges, he can afford the legal bills. His net worth is estimated at more than $500 million. Even so, the man who revolutionized the money markets of the roaring '80s could wind up doing prison time in the '90s. Milken could also be slapped with a huge fine or be banned from working in the securities industry. For one who has devoted his life to building and controlling an unprecedented financing empire, that prospect may be the most chilling...
...difference is that two very dissimilar cultures have come together -- and sometimes have not come together -- to produce what has been hailed as "a new kind of workplace." Back in the early '80s, Toyota's president said the company would never operate a U.S. plant organized by the U.A.W. For their part, more than a few U.A.W. people said they'd never work for "the Japs." Five years later, the effect the two cultures have had on each other can be summed up in one sentence: the Americans are working better, and the Japanese are enjoying life more...
...renditions of wheezy professorial badinage and flamboyant dramatic monologues. But it is Davies' own voice that seems most memorable: confident, unhurried, interested and amused. Late in the novel, on the brink of the opera's opening night, the narrative pauses briefly to consider Oliver Twentyman, a trouper in his 80s who will sing the role of Merlin the magician: "He liked being old -- and still a great artist. Age, linked with achievement, was a splendid crown to life." So it is, as this novel and Davies' remarkable career munificently demonstrate...