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Does anyone remember underwear? The boldest of the Wanna Be's prowl thrift shops looking for ancient, bulletproof black lace bras and corsets, which they wear slapdash under any sort of gauzy shirt or found-in-the-attic jacket. They tie great floppy rags in their frazzled hair, which when really authentic is blond with dark roots...
Though Eliot corresponds with a network of women friends, her governing passion is for men. In her boldest act, she chooses to live with the science writer George Henry Lewes, even though he can never legally free himself from his conspicuously unfaithful wife. Eliot's scandalous but happy liaison with Lewes produces few letters, because for 24 years the couple are hardly ever out of each other's sight. Still, Eliot's correspondence is full of references to the man who insists that she write fiction and who encourages his self- doubting and often depressed companion, novel after novel...
Just ten years ago, risk arbitrage was practiced only by a few high rollers. The merger boom, however, has provided so many opportunities that many other investors have become involved. By far the biggest and boldest of the arbs is Ivan F. Boesky, 47, who has his own privately held firm. He raked in about $50 million on Texaco's 1984 takeover of Getty and $65 million last year when Chevron bought Gulf. Three weeks ago, Boesky turned a tidy profit when he bought 3 million shares of Holiday Inns at $47.30 just as the company was offering...
...these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed, and human rights groups claim that 1,000 more have "disappeared" at the hands of government security forces. That heedless...
...last time a new name plate appeared at General Motors was 1926, when the company introduced the Pontiac. Last week another one was added. Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac suddenly got a baby brother. In GM's boldest plan yet to counter Japanese imports, Chairman Roger Smith announced that it would set up an entirely new company, called Saturn Corp., to produce its long-planned line of subcompact cars. Smith called Saturn "the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...