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...National is financed by Mexican media tycoon Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, who dominates his country's TV production. He also counts a pro soccer team among an estimated $1 billion in holdings. The new daily's publisher, Peter Price, erstwhile publisher of the New York Post, says the start-up cost $25 million and predicts losses of only $100 million more during the expansion. Price says the paper should break even, at a circulation of 750,000 a day, within two years. USA Today president Tom Curley is skeptical. Says he: "$100 million doesn't square with our experience...
...exuding the jock wholesomeness of a baby Christopher Reeve. Superboy. Dozens of such sleek stud puppies pass through Hollywood every year, and in Endless Love (1981) and The Outsiders (1982), Cruise had the chance to scope out his competition: Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, James Spader, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell. Usually boy toys come and go without attracting much more than vagrant pubescent lust. There is little job security in being this week's pinup on the bedroom wall of American girlhood...
...such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo's fledgling government, to Douglas MacArthur's ringing 1942 promise to return to the Philippines and Washington's support for Ferdinand Marcos until the virtual eve of Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution...
...Rene Emilio Ponce, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said the armed forces "repelled what was in reality a nationwide offensive by the [rebels...
...like many of Holl's own interiors. And he demanded that certain salient details -- a basswood-and-airplane silk screen from a Manhattan apartment, for instance -- be built right into the exhibit's walls. Fortunately, the museum indulged him: the result (on display together with a handsome exhibit of Emilio Ambasz buildings) is the liveliest MOMA architectural show in years and palpable evidence that Holl, at 41, is one of the most influential younger architects in America today...