Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...SHELTERING SKY. Bernardo Bertolucci has made a swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film from Paul Bowles' novel of a married couple on an existential quest for romantic catastrophe in North Africa. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray the forlorn souls who languish under the desert's pitiless grandeur...
With its legendary aggressiveness, Laventhol accrued a record haul of $345 million from 50 offices across the country in fiscal 1990. But size was its demise. "In their quest for rapid growth, they took on some clients that they shouldn't have," says Arthur Bowman, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report, a trade newsletter, "either in industries that they didn't understand or clients who were running very risky ventures." But if the 360 Laventhol partners are licking their wounds, its 3,400 remaining employees are left with even less: job hunting in the emaciated financial industry. Some...
...reason for the spread of salmonella, ironically, is Americans' determination to guard their health. In the quest to keep cholesterol levels down, people are turning more often to low-fat poultry: annual per capita consumption of chicken alone has risen from 40 lbs. in 1970 to more than 70 lbs. this year. Unfortunately, mass-production techniques make many poultry farms and plants prime breeding grounds for salmonella. Different strains of the bacteria can contaminate eggs as well as meat. (Raw cow's milk can also be tainted, but beef is less of a problem than poultry because the slaughtering process...
...private Paley appears even less admirable. An inveterate social climber, he downplayed his Jewish heritage in a quest for acceptance by the Wasp upper crust. Despite two beautiful and socially accomplished wives, he chased women relentlessly. He was aloof with employees, cold to his children and lavish in his personal life-style. "Paley," says Smith, "was as spoiled as a man could...
...South Side. Colemon was ordained by the Unity School of Christianity, based in Unity Village, Mo., a New Thought group that she quit in 1974 because of what she charged was a racist tinge. Colemon preaches reincarnation (she believes she was once an Egyptian princess) and an unapologetic quest for material prosperity ("Money is God in action"). Practicing what she preaches, the pastor lives in a 23- room mansion...