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Turner's whirlwind pace leaves most aides looking a little shellshocked. He is a kaleidoscope of ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide...
Chrysler has no strong line of muscle cars, but Iacocca has come up with a similar stroke of marketing savvy-the return of the convertible. When he decided to revive the ragtop last October, he expected annual sales of 4,500. Convertible versions of the Chrysler Le-Baron and Dodge 400 are now selling at a yearly rate of 50,000, despite price tags as high as $15,255. "We haven't been able to keep them in stock," says Thomas Pappert, Chrysler's vice president for sales. GM and Ford are rushing to catch up, with their...
Where does that leave Cannes the movie festival? Still exciting after all these years. Fitzcarraldo, which stars Klaus Kinski as an Irish rubber baron who leaves his mistress, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a mystical trek through the Peruvian jungle that took four calamitous years out of Director Herzog's life and won him the best director prize. The official competition also boasted new films from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jerzy Sko-limowski and Jean-Luc Godard. Antonioni's Identification of a Woman is hypnotic and erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation...
...Matlin '82 the recipient of the Le Baron Russell Briggs Commencement Prize, will give the undergraduate English Oration on "The Legacy of Confusion," and John McCullough will deliver the Graduate English Commencement Oration, presenting a speech entitled "On Moral Life...
Sabre Dale McCourt drilled a shot into the corner of the net behind Boston goalie Marco Baron two minutes after Crowder's goal, and Gil Perreault tipped in a pass from the boards by teammate Alan Haworth. Larry Playfair scored for Buffalo in the third period...