Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story and serve a dual function: to entertain and to teach...
...while it was relatively easy for Rolling Stone (circ. 1.18 million) to follow its franchise, rock 'n' roll, into the mainstream, Ms. and Mother Jones have not had as clear a path. Named after turn-of-the-century labor organizer Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones established itself as a passionate muckraker with a 1977 expose that alleged Ford had been aware of what turned out to be a fatal defect in its Pinto. Over the years the magazine has gradually increased its cultural coverage, a trend that will continue in its new incarnation. But the new Mother Jones will also...
...with the taste for success is a college dropout who lives by his well-cultivated wits. A connoisseur of hard rock and fine art, Geffen invests in performers and producers he trusts and usually gives them the freedom to follow their own instincts. "I see myself as a baby doctor. The product's not mine actually, but I've assisted in the process...
...come to monopolize political control, he has yet to give any clear indication as to how he will open up the system to competitive party politics and insure that candidates for public office will be those who demonstrate broad popular support, rather than those who slavishly follow the dictates of the PRI hierarchy. As it now stands, the PRI fields the slate of candidates, meaning that those public officials who dare to buck the party establishment quickly find their careers in jeopardy...
...expected criminal charges could heavily damage Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. investment firm and the fastest-growing powerhouse on Wall Street. Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is likely to follow the SEC in accusing Drexel and Milken of collaborating with convicted arbitrager Ivan Boesky to defraud the firm's clients, trade on insider information and conceal the true ownership of stocks -- all, presumably, in the pursuit of greater profits and power. Milken's lawyers, for their part, accuse the Government of a vindictive campaign based solely on self-serving testimony by Boesky...