Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Into the Woods (1987). Stephen Sondheim's best musical was gorgeous to look at, haunting to hear and thought provoking to remember. A fractured fairy tale that brought into the same forest Cinderella, Rapunzel and the like, it asked what comes after happily-ever-after, pondering what it means to grow...
...Polish society, often badly assessed by itself and its leaders, has proved itself better and much more mature than we thought...
Sorriest Dealmaker. All's fair in love and takeover war, or so thought Texaco. In 1984 the Lone Star oil giant pined for Getty Oil, even though that company had already pledged its hand to another suitor, Pennzoil. Texaco managed to seduce Getty with a sweeter offer, but the jilted Pennzoil persuaded a Dallas jury that it had been cheated. To avoid posting a $10 billion bond, Texaco had to declare bankruptcy. Eventually the company settled the dispute by wiring $3 billion to Pennzoil's bank account...
Enter Dayton Hyde, an Oregon rancher with a reputation for unorthodox management and a deep interest in conservation. "In my travels I kept going by feedlots seeing these poor creatures cooped up," says Hyde, 64. "I thought, That's no way to treat a wild horse. My dream was to get these horses out of the feedlots and running free again...
...more than four decades, Western policy has been based on a grotesque exaggeration of what the U.S.S.R. could do if it wanted, therefore what it might do, therefore what the West must be prepared to do in response. Gorbachev has shown that, in some respects, where the West thought the Soviet Union was strong, it was in fact weak. The spectacle of this past year -- often exhilarating, sometimes chaotic and in Tiananmen Square horrifying -- has revealed a brittleness in the entire communist system, whether the armed and uniformed minions of the state ended up snipping barbed wire, as they...