Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy. Matsushita, meanwhile, is locked in a struggle with the American executives who run MCA -- the film studio it bought for $6.1 billion in 1990 -- over the Americans' demand for more authority and investment capital. Last week the company reportedly hired Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz and media dealmaker Herbert Allen to help make peace and to "re-evaluate" MCA's assets; one option would be to sell a stake in the company...
...Allen, on the other hand, is obliged to play a man named Scott Calvin, a hard-charging, fast-rising toy-company executive who is pressed into service as a substitute St. Nick in circumstances at once too complicated and too stupid to explain. He finds to his dismay that the job is his for all eternity (that -- Get it? -- is the Santa clause buried in some fine print he didn't get a chance to read), and he is understandably skeptical about whether taking over operations at the North Pole is a great career move. To achieve a happy resolution...
...tacky modernist form. Miracle on 34th Street, as befits a remake we probably don't need, offers us a Santa Claus cut along classic lines -- round, twinkly and played with a nice, comforting restraint by the redoubtable Richard Attenborough. The Santa Clause presents us with an Anti-Claus, Tim Allen of Home Improvement, hard-edged, discomfitingly frenetic and spritzing cheerless one-liners...
...Tomorrow will be hellacious," said shuttle driver Allen A. Russell. "It's a holiday weekend getaway day...there could be as many as 40 people...
...Allen Proctor, vice president for finance, said yesterday that the NIH withdrew its threat three days ago after he negotiated a plan to improve Harvard's performance...