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...Master of the Universe, according to Wolfe the pharse-maker. Masters of the Universe are the ultimate egotists, absorbed in the pursuit of a power that supercedes dollar values. In a way that differentiates him from his old-line WASP father, McCoy is a patrician with an all-consuming greed. Not merely to be rich, but to be the richest. The most. For as McCoy knows, it's not the money, but the control that he seeks on the trading floor, in his 20-room apartment, in the pied-a-terre of his mistress...
Reports that greed is dead are greatly exaggerated, according to a nationwide survey of college freshmen. Seventy-six percent of 210,000 students declared that being financially well off is an "essential" or "very important goal" in their lives. Just 39% placed a premium on creating a "meaningful philosophy of life." That was the lowest proportion in the 22-year history of the annual survey, sponsored by the American Council on Education and the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA...
JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING Forget Wall Street. For a really savage study of greed and relentless connivance, see Claude Berri's double- decker movie. His tale of fate-haunted French peasants is also that movie rarity: tragedy on the grand and classic scale...
Despite strong incentives to settle the dispute at times seemed irresolvable. The bitterness peaked last April, when Texaco filed for Chapter 11 protection to avoid posting a bond to cover the jury award. Charged Texaco Chief Executive James Kinnear: "Pennzoil has placed its own greed above any consideration of fundamental fairness or the public welfare." Said Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "Maybe now we should sit back a while and see how they like bankruptcy...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...