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...lifestyle, it was truly gone. No more innocuous fun--in the '80s, fun means the hard stuff. Cocaine, crack, jogging and worse. The Village people, one of the founding groups of disco, deserted to punk (a self-respecting musical from that wouldn't have them). Olivia Newton-John deserted to the '80s fad, phys-ed. She and the country took their energetic dance from the dance floor...
...examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of everything they do. They are tearing up organization charts, selling off unsatisfactory product lines and closing down unprofitable plants at a rate never seen before. Their aim: to produce streamlined, combative concerns that can withstand the frenetic, competitive pace of the late '80s...
...80s, well over half of the names on the FORTUNE list of the 1,000 largest U.S. corporations have undergone some form of significant reorganization. Gulf & Western in the past four years has spun off some 65 diverse subsidiaries worth more than $4 billion. IBM has closed three domestic plants, cut back on employee overtime, and is reducing its U.S. work force 7%, to 225,000, through attrition and early retirement incentives. AT&T last year cut 32,000 out of a work force of 322,000, in an effort to save $1 billion annually. Among the jobs lost were...
Classic Hitchcock in skeletal form: the setting of Rear Window; the mama's-boy murderer from Strangers on a Train; and even a fashionable switch of identities from Vertigo and Marnie. There are other rewards in this low- rent thriller. Guttenberg is no one's nominee for an '80s Cary Grant, but his frat-boy smile freezes nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot...
...meet the challenge of the '80s...