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...recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with it. Says Thomas Thornhill III, an analyst at Montgomery Securities: "We all thought Japan Inc. was the Godzilla that would gobble up the U.S. chip industry. Nobody thinks Japan is the big bad monster...
Well, Foreman won his title by flattening Joe Frazier, who was no joke. 'Course that was back in '73, and the next year Foreman lost to Ali in Zaire. Then he lost to Jimmy Young, who wasn't a joke but wasn't Godzilla either. Foreman quit fighting for 10 years and took up preaching. And eating. But then four years ago, he started fighting again. He beat 24 stiffs in a row, 23 by knockouts...
Imagine if two battling behemoths like King Kong and Godzilla decided to join forces. Talk about a knockout combination. That's how the entertainment industry reacted last week to the disclosure that Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial, the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, is negotiating to buy MCA, the American show-business giant, in a deal that could be worth more than $7 billion. The acquisition would represent an even more titanic version of the hardware-meets-software combination pioneered by Matsushita's rival Sony, which bought CBS Records for $2 billion in 1988 and Columbia Pictures...
When will it end? I agonized as I walked to my dorm. Those Japanese. They're not tourists. They're probably devious, cunning spies lying in wait to infiltrate Harvard and finally buy it. Maybe they're already planning to remake the John Harvard statue into Godzilla...
...work by American animators and the National Film Board of Canada. The Festival includes films displaying a number of different animation techniques, from the computer animations of Pixar and Apple Computer to the claymation techniques of Will ("The California Raisins") Vinton. As usual, Marv Newland's classic Bambi Meets Godzilla returns along with this year's Festival: This year also highlights the work of Max Fleischer, one of the pioneers of the animation form...