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...sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge. The IBM version of Excel has fancier features than 1-2-3 and arrives in stores by the end of October. The new 1-2-3 will not be out until...
...winning candidate flashes a toothpaste smile and a boyish charm. He wears button-down shirts, pleated slacks and wire-rimmed glasses that suggest his Ivy League background. Clearly, Kurt Schmoke, 37, winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in Baltimore, represents a new breed of big-city black politician. He is no graduate of the clubhouse system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from...
Whether slapping his name on skyscrapers or feuding with New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Developer Donald Trump captures attention. So when the boyish-looking billionaire spent $94,801 on full-page newspaper ads last week to sound off about the Persian Gulf, political observers took notice. Was Trump preparing a run for office...
MARRIED. Tom Cruise, 24, cocky, boyish screen actor (Risky Business, Top Gun, The Color of Money); and Mimi Rogers, 32, earnest TV performer (Paper Dolls) and movie actress (Gung Ho, Street Smart); he for the first time, she for the second; in New York State...
...Hoffman has a role nicely suited to the comic whine of his neuroses. Beatty, 50, has one in which his distracted air and his lack of traditional star presence can be made to look like modesty -- though at his age, his looks are no longer flawlessly tailored to his boyish manner. Thomson has an occasion for his book and a confirmation of his imaginative insights into the star's character. The rest of us can enjoy a movie that is reasonably genial and diverting. At a cost of $10 million or $15 million, it might have made the studio happy...