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...group stumbled into a magnificent wreck. Water poured through a hole in the roof, mushrooms grew on the floor. "The theater was almost impassable," Stern recalls. "Plaster was all over the stairs, like an alpine slag heap. We each carried giant flashlights and wore hard hats. Birds were flying through, dropping their stuff as we passed. It was a mess, but of course a very romantic mess. Michael was quick to see not only the romance but the potential." What Eisner also came to see, after two years of tough negotiations, was a deal that included low-interest loans from...
...acid paper problem is not new. Scholars and librarians have known for years that the poor quality with which books were printed for much of the last two centuries would eventually leave us with a heap of dust. The question now is what to do about...
...economic liberalization would not sweep away the Communist Party's monopoly on power. He committed his successors to the relentless repression of democracy. Deng and some of the men now in power ordered the tanks into Tiananmen Square in June 1989 to crush the nascent democracy movement beneath a heap of bloody bodies. Since then, virtually all of China's political dissidents have been jailed or hounded into exile...
...genuinely independent states, it will have the support of all its members and of the world at large. But if Russia tries to make "commonwealth" into a euphemism for domination of its neighbors, then the C.I.S. will deserve to join that previous set of initials--U.S.S.R.--on the ash heap of history...
...original old gold isn't good enough, now there's a heap of pretty paste imitations. Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, a fictionalized biopic of songwriter Carole King, has '60s-type tunes for girl groups and beach boys. Hanks' new film That Thing You Do!, about the Wonders, an imaginary pop group from Erie, Pennsylvania, features songs in the style of the Beatles, the Ronettes, the Ventures, Jan and Dean, even a little bogus Bacharach. And the ultimate British rip-off group, the Rutles, are cashing in on the Anthology with their own Archaeology CD--satire...