Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mancuso has painful memories to bolster his caution. He became Paramount chairman after the departure in 1984 of tough, abrasive Barry Diller, 44, who suddenly skipped over to become head of 20th Century-Fox. The reason for Diller's departure: differences over management style with Gulf & Western CEO Martin Davis. Diller was followed out the door by Paramount President Michael Eisner, 44, who accepted an offer to become chairman of Disney. A number of senior Paramount production executives departed in the duo's wake. Recalls Ned Tanen, 55, currently head of Paramount's motion-picture group: "Frank (Mancuso...
...Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish the 260-room hotel for an additional $40 million...
Afghans are a special breed; unlike most people in the third world they never have been colonized. Three British attempts in the 19th and early 20th centuries to extend British India's border into Afghanistan were fended off by the fiercly independent Afghans...
...relation between museums and contemporary painting has switched in the 1980s. A hundred years ago you had brilliant painters and dumb museums; today the reverse. It is inconceivable that the marginality and hamfistedness of most of what passes for major painting at the end of the 20th century could have been taken seriously in the Paris of Degas, Cezanne and Rodin. Under the heat of the market, avant-garde and pompier have simply fused into an opaque, complacent lump. Only in the museum, it seems, can the full evidence of creativity be reconstituted. If we are to enter the world...
...that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco in 1986, steal a whale or two and transport their precious cargo . . . back...