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After the breakup, Beaton returned to his old inclinations. He became famous for set designs and costumes for theater and films--the ones for My Fair Lady won Oscars--and, on a tour of a San Francisco gay bar called the Toolbox, he met the 29-year-old "boy" who was to be his last great amour. The designermemoirist-photographer -artist went on to honors ranging from placement on the best-dressed list to high-priced one-man shows of his work. He acquired wealthy and titled patrons wherever he displayed his work or himself. But if he appeared elegant...
...Peres seemed to be looking for an excuse to bring down the government, he does not apparently want the coalition to fall over this issue. A recent poll shows that the public, which credits the national unity government with solving many of Israel's economic problems, strongly opposes a breakup of the coalition and early elections...
...well after it was unveiled in Europe in 1979, but it has turned a profit only in West Germany and Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System 12 with most existing U.S. phone networks. AT&T and Northern Telecom both made popular systems, and Araskog lost $125 million before he abandoned the project in February...
...from rentals of residential phone equipment have fallen from $200 million in 1984 to $150 million last year. Moreover, the communications conglomerate is losing an estimated $950 million a year in its computer- and telephone- equipmen t divisions. AT&T launched its computer group with great expectations after the breakup of the old telephone monopoly two years...
...loss of childhood attachment. The job of parents, she says, is to help youngsters remove their passions from the family and place them in the outside community. "That's one reason why so many boys seem to kill themselves after breaking up with a girlfriend," she says. "The breakup is felt as a failure to break out of the family orbit...