Word: australians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...
Australia. While Australia II was winning the America's Cup this fall, the Australian economy was also "getting under full sail," in the words of Board Member Peter Drysdale. A professorial fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Drysdale predicted that Australia will pull out of a slump that has raised unemployment above 10%. Said he: "There is a strong mood of confidence in the Australian economy-a sharp contrast with the confusion and retreat of twelve months...
This French-West German co-production was filmed in English in 1981 by a Polish emigre and stars an Australian (Sam Neill), a German (Heinz Bennent) and a French-German-Algerian-Turk (Isabelle Adjani). Alienation is, not surprisingly, all. Adjani bickers endlessly with Husband Neill, flirts with the mysterious Bennent, and wanders the deserted streets under a sky clouded with portents of apocalypse. One day, in a creepy subterranean walkway, she is seized by violent cramps, writhes about and delivers a glutinous hunk of protoplasm...
CHICAGO IS Rupert Munloch's kind of town. Ten days ago, the Australian tycoon paid $90 million to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's seventh largest newspaper and the Chicago Tribune's main rival. 'The Sun-Times reported the story on its front page, beneath a guide to the paper's memorial section in honor of George Halas. The owner and former couch of the Bears had just died. In his column that day. Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times writer Mike Royko said goodbye to "a classic Chicagoan." Others in Chicago undoubtedly said goodbye to the Sun-Times...
...Murdoch may take Wingo into the Midwest; he may add splashier news coverage and a few pictures of scantily-clad women. But possible apprehension over Murdoch's latest move overlooks several facts about contemporary American journalism, Murdoch's track record, and the Sun-Times itself. A feeling that this Australian may not be that bad after all centers on a simple question. Which came first: Rupert Murdoch, or Rupert Murdoch's readership...