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...since the breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire in 1911 has there been a more complex and potentially revolutionary restructuring of a U.S. corporation. The agreement opens the way for AT&T to divest itself of the least profitable and slowest-growing side of its business, local telephone service, by spinning off its 22 operating subsidiaries. At the same time, the company will be permitted to hang on to its very profitable and rapidly growing long-distance operations, which in 1980 accounted for more than 50% of AT&T's $51 billion in revenue. Even...
...before the breakup of La Nativité, the Coast Guard cutter Chase made its first catch: a leaky 35-ft. sailboat filled with 57 refugees. But Coast Guard officials admit that they can do little to avert a tragedy like La Nativité. "We can't blanket the coast with cutters," said one Coast Guard officer. "Unless you happen to be in the right place at the right time, things like this are going to happen...
...those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move in next door to the house Bernard occupies serenely with his wife and child. Civility and discretion quickly fail. Bernard is determined to return their relationship...
Although Cukor has a history of weak male performances when he doesn't work with the very best, he can't be blamed for the pathetic males of Rich and Famous; they were not his choice. And in any case, Ayres condemns Bisset to remain alone. After the breakup of her marriage, Liz falls in with a pseudo-intellectual journalist who proposes to her; Bisset snipes at the offer, obviously afraid to commit herself to anyone, let alone this infant. Finally, after a conference with Bergen, the sole time we see Bergen at all supportive, Bisset decides to accept...
...cause. In speech after speech at the 181 rallies, which were sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW), partisans assailed what Friedan called "the big lies" propagated by Schlafly's group. ERA, they explained, will not mean the sharing of public toilets, approval of homosexual marriage or breakup of the family. Repeatedly, optimistic speakers predicted a profeminist backlash from Ronald Reagan's policies...