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...medium of the media is a global saturation and does not grant moral exemptions. The Atlanta bomb has now caused the electronic atmosphere to buzz in the mind in an unpleasant way. The gaudily hyped Olympics were suddenly overcome by their media countershadow--so that the brightness now trails an equal and opposite darkness. Is it that terror and the media were implicated in some interconnected, overcommercialized Heisenberg effect? Did the media focus on the Games invite a terrorist to fasten his fatal attention where the lights were brightest? Perhaps. (On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia...
...blue-ribbon endorsement, Raisio's product, marketed under the name Benecol, became a Finn-nomenon. People had to have it, although it has almost no flavor, costs 10 times as much as conventional margarine and is less effective at lowering cholesterol than prescription drugs like Mevacor. Now the Benecol buzz has crossed the Atlantic, thanks to a story last week on the front page of the New York Times. Americans, who love fat almost as much as the Finns do, may have to wait a few years to try Benecol, however. Raisio has yet to petition the FDA for approval...
MOVIES . . . STRIPTEASE: Whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, 'Striptease' is not about Demi Moore1s getting naked ? well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say a damned handsome woman. But so far as this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one, says TIME's Richard Schickel. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter. The film places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight...
...Like Buzz Lightyear, the gung-ho plastic spaceman in Toy Story who thought he was real, investors in Pixar Animation Studios have learned that reality bites. Pulled down by the collapsing, technology-driven NASDAQ market, Pixar stock fell 5.7% last week, to close at $16.50, light-years from its November high of $49.50, signaling that the almost cartoonish rush of IPO investing is finished...
...prices could signal a return to sanity that will strengthen the market over the long run. "There was rampant speculation this spring that needed to be dampened," says Robert Natale, who directs research on new issues at Standard & Poor's. Perhaps IPO investors will learn, as Buzz Lightyear did, that there is life even after the bubble bursts. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York