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...that there may be some genuine reason to pursue this." At the end of the pursuit, MCI agreed to invest heavily in News Corp. stock--$1 billion now plus $1 billion over the next four years. In return, Murdoch will send his company's immense fund of grunt-and-grin entertainment, news and information through MCI phone lines into home and business screens. In addition to the Fox network, Murdoch owns the HarperCollins publishing house and a string of newspapers around the world, and two satellite-TV channels--BSkyB, which broadcasts across Europe, and STAR TV, which covers much...
...tall, self-effacing man with a boyish grin, Otto arrived at the office each day carrying his lunch in a brown paper bag. He left at precisely 6 p.m. to catch the train to his home on New York's Long Island, where he worked mornings and weekends at his 27-year-old Royal 440 manual typewriter, turning out books at the rate of two pages a day. (He once broke off in mid-sentence after reaching that quota.) Otto's contributions to Time went beyond his muscular prose. A patient, sometimes acerbic and always inspiring mentor, Otto set standards...
...that Bolduc popped into her office unexpectedly. She offered to bring him some coffee. "When I bent down to put the cup on the credenza for him, he reached over and ran his hand up my leg." This was no accident, she says. "He traditionally wears a Cheshire-cat grin on his face, and he was grinning then." In shock, she stalked out of the room and did nothing...
...contemptuous glare as the scurries by; a yuppie-ish man in a suit drops a bill into Throne's bucket without stopping to listen to a beat. But Throne is in his own world. On the rare occasions when he looks up, he's smiling a complacent half-grin. The beat goes on, and for a very good reason: for all the perks involved, street performing is Throne's main source of daily bread...
Ironically, in an age proud of its toughness, this new production lacks even some of the mild bite of the original. Robert Morse, who created the role of Finch, was an equivocal presence. With his gap-toothed, tilted grin and his air of scrounging narcissism, Morse was simultaneously magnetic and faintly unsettling. You had to sympathize with his fellow executives, just a little, when they sang, "Got to stop that man . or he'll stop me." Broderick, on the other hand, is so beguiling that you are delighted when he becomes chairman of the board and heartened to hear...