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...turmoil that grips GM, IBM and other behemoths including Sears and American Express, is more than a matter of size and the inevitable cycles of change. Many giants manage to avoid hardening of the arteries. Du Pont, which is nearly 200 years old, remains an industry leader in synthetic materials. Philip Morris started as a tobacco shop in 1847 but is now a $55 billion-a- year company that sells everything from beer to breakfast cereal. General Electric managed to grow from light bulbs to jet engines, and Motorola from car radios to microchips...
...shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express...
...WERE TO SELECT AN AMBASsador of European culture, it might be Catherine Deneuve. If you were to choose a film to express the agony and ambiguity of Vietnam in this century, it should be Indochine...
Many at Malcolm X express a sense of desperation in trying to rescue the children. Frank Edge is a formidable 215-lb. former professional wrestler who works as a school security guard. Children follow him around the playground and through the halls, where he doles out lollipops and hugs in equal measure. But for Edge, this is no casual job. Before coming to Malcolm X two years ago, he was assigned to a nearby junior high. When students from the school were killed, it was his duty to walk the grieving mother or father to their child's locker...
This wish for privacy, for restraint, is most moving when the poems that express it are themselves restrained--either metrically, as above, or to two or three tones of voice or registers of diction, or, simply, by being short. As Helen Vendler has noted, the situations and contexts in an Ashbery poem relate not to one another but to the poem's (emotional) center. The poems are often strongest when some structural constraint adds to their centripetal force...