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Like Buzz Lightyear, the gung-ho plastic spaceman in Toy Story who thought he was real, investors in Pixar Animation Studios have learned that reality bites. Pulled down by the collapsing, technology-driven NASDAQ market, Pixar stock fell 5.7% last week, to close at $16.50, light-years from its November high of $49.50, signaling that the almost cartoonish rush of IPO investing is finished...
...also admitted that "the trip was my idea but was presented to Jessica for her choice." No one disputes the girl was gung-ho, and her father became her press agent, courting all the usual engines of modern publicity: TV, radio, print. For all their New Age patter, Jessica's mother and father seemed to be stage parents of the old school, pushing their daughter in front of the curtain, hoping she would become a star, Macaulay Culkin in a cockpit. The week before the flight Jessica handed out signed photographs to members of the Half Moon city council. Dubroff...
...pervades many aspects of final club life. There are many among these men who defend their membership with arguments of male bonding and the like. Others try to belittle the role this affiliation plays in their lives. There is undoubtedly a spectrum of final club members, ranging from the gung-ho to the apathetic. This article is bound to offend many, although I am sure that any of you readers in final clubs feel yourselves to be an exception to these accusatory generalizations. You think to yourselves: I do not frequent the club. My purpose is not merely to pick...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH A gung-ho former soldier is charged with the worst act of home-grown terrorism...
...whole 'nice' thing has been overplayed," contends Michael Keaton, who starred in Howard's first studio film, Night Shift, as well as in the director's later features Gung Ho and The Paper. "He can make cold, hard decisions when he needs to. It's not like he rolls over. He does anything but roll over." Says Howard: "I'm not real neurotic, so I don't heap pressure on people unnecessarily. But if we're falling behind schedule or missing something artistically, it doesn't take a hell of a lot for me to let that be known...