Word: cineplex
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cumulative result is not only a character more interesting than any of his family or friends can imagine but also an interior life richer than even its owner recognizes. Rabbit's undiscriminating curiosity takes in everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration...
...everything has gone smoothly for MCA lately. Cineplex Odeon theaters, an upscale venture that charges as much as $7.50 for a ticket, lost $12 million in the first quarter of this year after expanding rapidly. And the $640 million Universal Studios amusement park in Florida, which opened in June, has been plagued by technical failures. But MCA chairman and patriarch Lew Wasserman, 77, apparently believes MCA's biggest strategic shortcoming is its failure to find a merger partner that would enable it to compete with such giants as Fox Inc. and Time Warner...
...were one more obstacle in Stein's Sisyphean journey to realize his dream park. He had first proposed the idea two decades ago. In 1980 he pitched a partnership to Paramount, where Eisner was president before taking over Disney. (Eisner says he was not at the meeting.) Last year Cineplex Odeon backed out as co-sponsor. And still Stein pursued his vision, like the Jaws shark searching for fresh kill. In the weeks before the opening, he walked dozens of journalists through the unfinished attractions. So beguiling was Stein's spiel that some reporters obligingly described the experience...