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...1970s. Turned off by the blandness of disco and the slickness of rhythm and blues, disk jockeys in black dance clubs began manipulating their turntables to blend instrumental riffs from different songs, dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...
Their determination was understandable. Campeau's American operations are tottering near bankruptcy, and the Bloomingdale's chain is up for sale. The setbacks have devastated Campeau, 66, a brash Canadian developer who became the most powerful retailer in the U.S. when he acquired Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores in 1980s takeover fights. Included in the deals were such prominent chains as Jordan Marsh, Bon Marche, Abraham & Straus and Burdines. But while the raids made Campeau a high-rolling business celebrity, they left his Toronto-based Campeau Corp. with more than $10 billion of leveraged-buyout debt and interest charges...
BUSINESS: A shaky empire loses its brash emperor...
When he burst upon the takeover scene in the early 1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
CINEMA: The "new Olivier" makes a brash Henry...