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IT HAS BEEN a long time now since pleasant utopian vision were in literary fashion. In recent days, they have been replaced with bleak prophecies of emotional aridity and violence like those of Huxley and Burroughs. Martin Amis's new novel, Dead Babies, is in this new tradition.
Did this drastic action signal a change in corporate ethics? Perhaps -but it comes too late. Last week too there were new revelations of yet more scandals in the offing. Burroughs Corp.
(1975 revenues: $1.7 billion) discovered suspicious "unauthorized withdrawals of funds from a foreign subsidiary." The implication is that the money might have been passed out in bribes to win more sales of Burroughs business machines. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it is investigating 30 large corporations, each...
Aaaa-eeyaa-eeyaa-eeoo! The nostalgic jungle roar echoed from a Marriott hotel in steamy nether Los Angeles last week as four of 15 former screen Tarzans and three of 19 ex-Janes got together to celebrate the centenary of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth. The lung-busting bellow...
So are profits from Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., which takes in more than $1 million annually from Tarzan movies, books, comic strips, frisbees, and his-and-her bikini underwear (ME TARZAN and ME JANE). To promote a new Me Jane bikini in Europe, the company plans to give away free...