Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...science-fantasy genre, recently festooned with cotton-candy aliens and the air of suburban benevolence, could be refreshed by making contact with the laws of dramatic gravity? As it happens, Cocoon has many familiar elements: it could be called E.T. Meets the Over-the-Hill Gang, or On Golden Pod. Like last Christmas' Starman, it contains a love story ^ between an extraterrestrial (Tahnee Welch, Raquel's lithe and stunning daughter) and a young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like E.T. and a dozen other fantasy films, it boasts...
...State Gallery in Stuttgart, which opened last year. The exquisitely proportioned classic entrance hall is assaulted by a bilious green Pirelli rubber floor covering and the gaudily painted steel frame of the elevator shaft. The circular interior courtyard, with sensuous marble nymphs basking in the glow of golden travertine and sandstone walls, is assaulted by vulgar pink and blue pipes that serve as handrails for a spiraling ramp...
...sweeping vistas of the bay, as well as its unobstructed microwave reception. The electronic gadgetry on the roof scans the airwaves and can pluck out conversations when a computer recognizes certain words or phrases. On a clear day, the Soviets can watch Navy aircraft carriers cruising under the Golden Gate Bridge and jets taking off from the Alameda Naval Air Station to the east. But the activity that truly intrigues the Soviets is 40 miles to the south, in Silicon Valley...
Apple Computer has become the symbol of American entrepreneurs. In his tax speech last week, President Reagan alluded to its two founders, Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who started the firm in a garage and set out on a "golden future." The President may have spoken too soon. Wozniak left the company in a huff in February after a disagreement over policy, and last week Jobs lost his position as director of the division that produces the company's powerful and popular Macintosh computer. The move came as part of a major company reorganization. John Sculley, Apple's chief executive...
Another major concern of law-enforcement officials is the surge of insider trading, in which company executives or employees use confidential information to help themselves or friends make killings in the stock market. In particular, the recent rash of mergers and acquisitions has created golden opportunities for investors who are tipped off to the deals ahead of time. Perhaps the most notorious episode involved Paul Thayer, the former businessman who became Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. While chairman of LTV and a member of the boards of Anheuser-Busch and Allied, Thayer passed to friends information about acquisitions...