Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author are doing well. Steel these days enters best-seller lists at the top. Kaleidoscope, one of her better tear-stained efforts, is about a less fortunate lady, Hilary Walker, whose father strangled her mother and then killed himself, who was torn from her two beloved sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make it as a TV executive. And Steel, too maternal to leave a heroine unfulfilled and unmarried, sends her John Chapman, a man with "perfect...
...advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro follow the emperor and empress (Chen) as rich and powerful friends seduce them. While the emperor continues to foster megalomanic visions of regaining the throne, his wife takes to opium...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...
Boesky's cooperation will probably help investigators nail other insider traders. So will last month's Supreme Court decision that upheld the conviction of R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who leaked advance information about his stories to brokers. The court ruled that improper use of inside information amounted to theft of property and that defendants could be tried under the Government's sweeping antifraud laws. The decision, says Giuliani, has "made it easier for prosecutors to bring fraud cases without fear that they will be reversed." Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan- based securities attorney, agrees: "The court...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...