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...nothing became Potter's life so much as his grace in leaving it, then nothing became his death so much as his having written so often about it. Mortality hung on his plays like crape. While awaiting his own demise, Philip Marlow, the hero of The Singing Detective, plots the death of all who may have hurt him. Lipstick on Your Collar climaxes at a grave site, where one of the three main characters is dead, a second falls into the open grave, and a third woos the widow -- all to the '50s tune Sh-Boom...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Jill Smolowe, Richard Zoglin...
Michael A. Miles, CEO of Philip Morris --the world's largest tobacco company -- resigned after six years on the job, in a move that stock traders say underscores the consumer products giant's commitment to cigarette production. Nonsmoker Miles' plan to separate the embattled tobacco branch from the rest of the company looks unlikely, and company executives are preparing to shore up their image on Wall Street. The stock has been on a long, downward slide over the last decade...
...that has presented the creme de la creme of contemporary American artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers and musicians to Parisian audiences. Over the years it has been a hangout for Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and has served as host of performances by the likes of John Cage, Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass, Steve Lacy and Merce Cunningham. In 1987 the center sold its dilapidated headquarters on the Boulevard Raspail and embarked on an ambitious building program in the Bercy region of eastern Paris. And that's where all the trouble really began...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Jill Smolowe, Richard Zoglin...