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...ideological allies of the g.o.p. revolution, like agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland and pacs for Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. When word of the guide leaked, furious lobbyists denounced it as "an enemies list," a violation of the Washington custom that you can do the fandango with just about anybody if it will help your cause...
...fretting was more urgent than it might have been because the recent management of Disney had been largely a Wells-Eisner fandango. Beginning in 1984, the pair had led Disney through a recovery that increased annual revenue more than $7 billion in 10 years. Wells was the detail-oriented negotiator who framed the deals for Disney's acquisitions and tended to the nuts and bolts of the business. Eisner was the company's intellectual incubator, dreaming up new projects, overseeing theme-park expansion and, in his own words, acting as the company's main "cheerleader." So close were...
...fading Pat Buchanan. That honor belongs instead to billionaire Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, who positions himself as a modern-day Cincinnatus called from the boardroom by the little people clamoring for him to mount an independent campaign for the White House. In what may be the cleverest antipolitics fandango in an antipolitics year, Perot insists, "I have no desire to be President. My personal feelings are, anybody intelligent enough to be able to do the job would not want the toughest, dirtiest, most thankless job in the world...
Orange's once easy-stepping social life has become a gilded fandango. Says Social Lioness Floss Schumacher, wife of retired Global Van Lines Chairman Edward Schumacher: "People are suddenly clamoring for white tie and tails." September will bring the opening of a 3,000-seat arts center in Costa Mesa, financed entirely by $71 million in donations...
...here come seven new youth movies to glut the glut. Tuff Turf, a gang movie set in Los Angeles, plays like the Beat It video at feature length. Fandango sends five college guys on a West Texas spree. Heaven Help Us has five Roman Catholic schoolboys getting cute in the confessional and decapitating a statue of their school's patron saint. Mischief pairs a wimp and a stud in the small-town '50s. In Tomboy, Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling...