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...from view because in the end what was revolutionary about Michael Jordan was not what he accomplished on the court but what he achieved off it. Jordan earned $4 million a year putting a ball through a hoop, but he made about eight times that for selling sneakers, cars, cola, cereal, hamburgers and underwear. In the past few years he was not a basketball star who played at business but a businessman who played basketball. His leaping, legs-splayed silhouette became as famous around the world as the large-eared shadow of another corporate and entertainment icon, Mickey Mouse. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Fly Away | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola can, and other examples of Western cultural detritus, all threaten to take over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The View From Piccadilly | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...Royal Academy of Arts in London. It contained some 230 works by 65 artists, spanning the period from 1913 to 1993. Among these were, as you might expect, quite a few of those black squares (Ad Reinhardt, 1913-67), crushed autos (John Chamberlain, born 1927) and Coca-Cola cans (Guess Who, 1928-87) spurned by the cultural critic of Beijing. And, again as you might expect, they are sympathetically, even rhapsodically treated in the catalog, written in part by the show's curators -- Christos Joachimides in Berlin and Norman Rosenthal, the exhibitions secretary of the Royal Academy. "The time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The View From Piccadilly | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...Trade Center, businessmen from 150 U.S. companies and 10 U.S. states were gathered last week for a landmark trade show. Corporations large and small displayed everything from shampoo and ball bearings to portable toilets and pinball machines. All manner of blue- chip names were in attendance: Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Timken and Kellogg. "The potential is there," says Jan Pieterse, an executive at Upjohn, the Michigan-based pharmaceutical firm. "With South Africa able to $ play an important role, this is no longer the lost continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are the Americans Doing? | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...past year Lotus, Microsoft, Tambrands and 24 other U.S. firms have opened offices, established subsidiaries or placed representatives in South Africa. "We get calls every day from companies that are thinking about going back in," reports William Moses, an analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington. Coca-Cola is said to be close to announcing a deal to set up manufacturing operations in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are the Americans Doing? | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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