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...This year's grand prize went to a stylish French commercial (also aired in the U.S.) in which a lion and a tawny woman climb up opposite sides of a mountain, and at the peak the woman outroars the lion for a bottle of Perrier. Another winner was a spectacular English spot for Reebok sneakers in which a Mohawk steelworker sprints and leaps atop an Atlanta skyscraper. The ad is so scary that it was banned from British TV. Overall, Britain won the most Lions -- 20 compared with the U.S.'s 14. Australia and Spain tied for third place with...
This week at the Met, and in the tour's finale next week at the Wolf Trap festival outside Washington, the Bolshoi will offer two far less familiar works, which are nevertheless as characteristically Russian as the Onegin. One is Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada, a spectacular combination of opera and ballet, folk fantasy and fairy tale. Mlada is an oddity that played only fitfully after its premiere in 1892 and had disappeared for more than a half-century when the Bolshoi revived it in 1988. "Mlada was a hard test for us," says chief designer Valery Levental, "because nobody knew...
Jordan showed that he is much more. In the final minutes of last week's final game, it was Michael's sharp assists to guard John Paxson, not his 30 spectacular points, that won the day and the series. Jordan's passing violates two sacrosanct rules: don't go up in the air unless you know what you're going to do there, and don't throw the ball crosscourt. Jordan invariably found the open man because he has a map of the court and all its players inside his head (he majored in geography at North Carolina). He knows...
...collapse of Executive Life is only the most spectacular blow currently shaking the security of the American pension system. Last week Dallas-based LTV (1990 sales: $6.1 billion) announced plans to sell off its large aerospace-and-defense company, which helps make Stealth bombers and Boeing jets, to raise enough cash to fund the pensions of its 70,000 retired steelworkers. The firm has been mired in bankruptcy proceedings since 1986, primarily because of those obligations. In Los Angeles, First Capital Holdings, an insurance holding company whose failing California operating division was seized two weeks ago by insurance officials, sought...
...industry's tidy record was torn to shreds with the explosion of Executive Life in the largest insurance-company failure in U.S. history. Dismissing the steady-as-she-goes financial procedures of most insurers, Executive Life had blazed a fast track to spectacular growth, grabbing market share by offering higher payouts on annuities and charging lower fees than most of its competitors. To meet its growing obligations, the insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once...