Word: schuster
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...been hailed as an urban masterpiece. Tourists flock to its ice rink to watch skaters twirl and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes do their high kicks with uncanny precision. But last week the Manhattan landmark, which houses U.S. companies ranging from General Electric to Simon & Schuster, took on a fresh symbolism. Control of the 19-building center passed into foreign hands when Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Co. agreed to pay $846 million for a 51% share of the Rockefeller Group, which owns most of the complex...
ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50). Nixon's helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating results...
...Stephen E. Ambrose; Simon & Schuster; 736 pages...
SOME CAN WHISTLE by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). Some of McMurtry's good books, like Terms of Endearment, have been turned into good movies. Alas, this novel, about a feckless millionaire TV writer discovering his daughter from a long-ago marriage, is not a good book. Wait for the inevitable screen adaptation...
...such apocalyptic visions justified? Not at all, argues conservative pundit George Gilder in his new book, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (Simon & Schuster; $19.95), a lively look at the history and prospects of the U.S. microelectronics industry. Gilder, author of the best-selling Wealth and Poverty, thinks that as computer-chip technology advances, America will widen its lead...