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...gray suit, the triumphant Turner embarked on a twelve-block march to his law firm's Madison Avenue office. It seemed almost like a nose-thumbing gesture toward doubters in New York City's media and financial communities. "Hey, it's Ted!" cried star-struck pedestrians. Said one admiring businessman to a colleague: "That guy's got a lot of nerve...
...Here's a little statistic that means a lot. In hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. The image instantly summoned is of the traveling businessman who wants a smidge of sexual exercise before retiring, but who is too tired, timid or cheap to summon a call girl. He cares little about whatever niceties of dialogue or mise-en-scene the movie may contain. He seeks only a brisk hand job, self-applied, then clicks...
...There's a lot of porn out there. But nobody's calling it art. Or even, technically, film. (The industry has been virtually all-video for a couple of decades.) Porn is a commodity, with no more pretension to art than the most mindless kiddie show. For the weary businessman it's just a combination Viagra and Ambien...
DIED. SOL LINOWITZ, 91, lawyer, businessman and diplomat who advised Presidents Johnson, Carter and Clinton; at his home in Washington. As an attorney, he acquired the rights to technology that built Xerox into one of the nation's largest companies. He went on to a life of diplomacy, helping negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama and later representing Carter in the Middle East negotiations that followed the 1978 Camp David accords...
When China opened its markets to foreign investment, no one was more eager to go in than John-Paul Ho. Before the communist takeover in 1949, the company his engineer-businessman father ran was the local partner of American companies operating in China. Ho, a Harvard-trained applied engineer and M.B.A., left a prestigious Wall Street investment-banking job to start Crimson Investment in 1993. At first he and his partners found nothing but state-owned companies with outdated equipment, poor management and, understandably, little comprehension of the concepts of capitalism. "I couldn't find any management teams I felt...