Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether it is diet Coke, new Coke, classic Coke, cherry Coke or some other soda, more soft-drink fans buy something sold by Coca-Cola than by any other beverage maker. No. 2 PepsiCo keeps trying hard to catch up, and last week the company may have found a way to do so. Pepsi announced an agreement to buy Seven-Up, the third-largest soft-drink manufacturer, from Philip Morris for $380 million. As part of the deal, Philip Morris retains Seven-Up's bottling plants and food division. By adding Seven-Up's 7% share of the $26 billion...
...N.P.A. bases its plans on classic Maoist theory, which sees three stages in a protracted war: the "strategic defensive," during which a Communist base is built; the "strategic stalemate," during which guerrilla forces achieve equal footing with government troops; and the "strategic offensive," when rebels force government troops into a defensive posture. According to both the military and the Communist Party, the insurgency is now nearing the end of the first stage. A stronger military response could forestall the next phase, but the best guarantee against further N.P.A. gains would be economic prosperity and the renewal of credible democracy...
...small) town, two slogans. It looked like a classic case of municipal identity crisis...
...Altman, whose classic Nashville had an equally jarring conclusion, seems right at home in Shepard's irresolute world. It is his prerogative to leave things open-ended, and ours to question the repercussions of his choice. Altman's version of Shepard's play is certainly more than filmed theatre. The world he gives us is tangible and authentic, and no film in recent memory has as meticulous a look. Eddie's truck is a masterpiece of mud and birdcrap, like a Jackson Pollack custom-designed Chevy. May's motel room is a working model for entropy, strewn with dirty underwear...
...16th century Japan. And Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are here men called Taro, Jiro and Saburo. We are obviously far from the place of this tragic tale's mythic birth and noble retelling, and we are far from the inert reverence of the typical movie adaptation of a classic. Indeed, in Ran (which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts and diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira Kurosawa has done is to reimagine Lear in terms of his own philosophy, which blends strains of Western existentialism with a sort...