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Simple, right? Maybe, but in the Age of the Yuppie, Guppie, Buppie, Yumple, and other Jerry Rubin perversities, this simple, straight forward book is a radical statement. Even if Tsongas goes down in history as no more than the Alan Alda of Capitol Hill, Heading Home will have performed the invaluable service of teaching us that careerism is only skin deep--literally...
...best of two worlds: they are students of both Radcliffe and Harvard. The relationship between the two institutions has changed over the century to accommodate changing times and changing needs. But what has never changed is Radcliffe's to providing undergraduate women with access to a Harvard education. Alda K. Press Director of Public Information Radcliffe College
Asking, "Do you dare?" is more than an exercise in Alan Alda Yuppiedom: it lies at the crux of deterrence theory, a theory that Schell painstakingly and convincingly shows is as out-of-date as John Wayne machismo...
...Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer. Physically, it spread to 49 buildings around Sunnyvale, Calif. But its fall came even faster, as a fickle public cooled to its video games. Losses hit $539 million last year. Not even TV commercials featuring M*A*S*H Superstar Alan Alda could revive Atari. Last week Warner Communications, which has owned Atari since 1976, gave up on turning the company around and sold it. The principal buyer and new boss: Jack Tramiel, 56, a blunt, balding executive whose adage is "Business...
What has happened? For one thing, most of the formative creative figures from the 1970s have either left the field or lost their touch. Norman Lear, who revitalized the sitcom in 1971 with All in the Family, flopped with his comeback series earlier this year, a.k.a. Pablo. Alan Alda's The Four Seasons, his first effort since M*A*S*H (which he helped shape as a sometime writer and director), also failed to catch on, and has been canceled...