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...Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 48 years after Jesse Owens won gold medals in the long jump, the 100, the 200 and the relay, Lewis is favored in the same four events. Amid the bedlam of track's athletic circus, only he makes everything else come to a stop. His body is hard, like mahogany, but carved in unusually clear detail, including ropelike muscular definition. He is full-faced, rather babyfaced, but otherwise trim: 6 ft. 2 in., 173 Ibs. As a 100-meter sprinter, Lewis has registered the third-fastest time ever...
...homeless, downtown can be a terrifying bedlam, a place of cold stares, harassment by police and occasional attacks by violent punks. "You walk the streets out of loneliness," says Salvation Army Sociologist Ronald Vander Kooi, "and you start talking to yourself." Joseph Hanshaw, 19, has kept his bearings so far. Last spring he was kicked out of a Job Corps camp for selling marijuana. "Stupid," he admits. "I blew it." He has spent most of 1983 sleeping where he could around Manhattan. A job has eluded him, but, he says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make...
Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Free man, the creators of the show, have invented a conglomerate that might better be called Bedlam Inc. The company's indecisive sales manager answers yes-or-no questions with a paralyzed "Nes" and blurts out unsolicited confessions. He tells his wife, "You know that huge Hawaiian barbecue pit we put in? Well, I didn't pay for it. I buried it in the Kuwaiti bid under market research." Cohen maintains that this is how companies really work. "This is a comedy and will treat business like...
...manner of Hogarth's engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each one a quotation from Hogarth, and in front of it the chorus of lunatics is housed in a stack of boxes, splayed in false perspective, a feverish metaphor of cellular confinement...
...bedlam at Akihabara goes a long way toward explaining why Japan has conquered consumer electronics markets around the world. For Japanese companies, competition begins at home. To survive and prosper, they must turn out products with exceptionally low prices, outstanding quality and innovative features. If Japanese firms can outpace their local rivals, foreign competitors often prove to be pushovers. Says a top Japanese electronics executive: "Our target is not some other country; our target is ourselves...