Word: epically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Texaco knows what it means to pay for past sins. Just two months after the company agreed to pay Pennzoil $3 billion to end their epic legal battle, Texaco last week consented to shell out $1.25 billion to settle another dispute -- this time with the U.S. Government. Texaco is one of seven major oil companies accused by the Department of Energy of overcharging customers between 1973 and 1981, when federal oil-price controls were in effect. The $1.25 billion penalty is the largest imposed so far against a single company...
...Herron is an extreme case of the excessdemands placed on women faculty. As one of twoBlack women faculty members, Herron says shespends a disproportionate amount of her timedealing with women's issues. "Everything aboutBlack women comes to me," says Herron, whose fieldis not women's studies, but rather the epic inliterature. "I don't study it, I live it," shesays, adding that she would prefer to concentrateon her chosen field of study...
...midst of the important February "sweeps" period and will give the No. 3 network a big, if temporary, ratings boost. The competition, however, will not be playing dead. NBC, for example, has scheduled its biggest mini-series of the season, eight hours of James Clavell's Hong Kong epic Noble House, smack in the middle of the Games. ABC may find Calgary more congenial than Sarajevo, but it still has to persuade viewers not to skip off prematurely to the Orient...
Tomas (Daniel Day Lewis) has an urgent demand, repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk...
...stakes of Icahn's ventures keep getting larger and riskier. Last week Texaco, in which Icahn holds an interest of nearly 15%, said it lost an astronomical $4.4 billion last year, mainly because of its $3 billion payout to settle an epic takeover dispute with Pennzoil. Yet Texaco's loss might have been far larger had it not agreed to a compromise settlement of Pennzoil's $10.3 billion claim -- a break in the stalemate that Icahn helped bring about. Now Icahn is locked in a struggle with Texaco's management over how to restructure the company and bring it back...