Word: di
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...onus of topping himself after four films (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), all of them critical and popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering, Burton would make his own film...
Because like it or not, De Gennaro says, thechanges will keep coming. He notes a quotation byGiuseppe Di Lampedusa that he included in thestrategic plan report: "If we want things to stayas they are, things will have to change...
There is action as well at the level of the European Community as a whole. Last January, E.C. environment commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana got initial approval for a tax to be levied on fuels that give off carbon dioxide. He figures this will eventually push the price of natural gas up about 30% and coal 60%, increases that will spur businesses and consumers to conserve energy. The E.C. has been helping finance development of clean technologies, such as 100%-recyclable cars and low-polluting power generators, since...
...contending vessels in 1989, technology became more important than ever as teams scrambled to build a qualifying boat that would respect the rules and still win races. New technology doesn't come cheap. The two boats competing in the finals -- America 3 from the U.S. and Il Moro di Venezia from Italy -- have together devoured $160 million in development costs. The millionaires funding these efforts, American energy entrepreneur William Koch and Italian businessman Raul Gardini, are hoping their largesse will pay off in the best-of-seven finals that began last weekend...
...trailing Koch's craft 4 to 2 in a best-of-13 final at the end of last week. In the challenger series, to decide which foreign entry will face the Americans on May 9, the New Zealand enjoyed a 4-to-1 lead over Italy's Il Moro di Venezia (pictured above with the red spinnaker in an early round against the Kiwis...