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...decadence. (This was before Robert Mapplethorpe showed us that dog collars were as American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when the energies of liberation had moved on to less wholesome destinations. Instead of pot, cocaine; instead of Joan Baez, Patty Hearst. Newton plunged into this atmosphere with pictures of deluxe women in bondage gear and lesbian lip locks. They pinned men to the ground, wrestled each other and glared at us from couches in the best hotels, sometimes baring their breasts and (implicitly) their fangs...
...Casey at the Bat” was written by Thayer in January of 1888 for the San Francisco Examiner, a newspaper which was then headed by Thayer’s classmate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was an editor of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...sought out Buffett. McDonald's made its announcement after CEO Jim Cantalupo had turned to one of his advisers--Don Keough, a former long-time Coke executive and FOB (Friend of Buffett). Keough had adopted Buffett's view. On the question of expensing stock options, Cathleen Black, president of Hearst Magazines, who sits with Buffett on the Coke board, has broached the idea at IBM, another firm at which she serves as a director. Diller says he intends to stop granting stock options altogether and look for another incentive plan. Doris Christopher, who sold The Pampered Chef to Berkshire, says...
...antenna sites in the U.S., about 75% are mounted on towers in the traditional (read: ugly, obtrusive) sense. The rest have been tucked inside steeples and flagpoles, on rooftops and water towers and in giant fake trees adorning rarefied real estate from Virginia's Mount Vernon to California's Hearst Castle. Even Pebble Beach's hallowed golf course is reportedly considering installing high-tech replicas of gnarled cypress trees...
...respond to a network on which a show's title is likely to include the word betrayed or scorned has generated some derision and concern. "We've heard the criticism before," says Lifetime's marketing director, Rick Haskins, "but not from viewers." In fact, Lifetime, a joint venture of Hearst and Disney, seems to have solved the eternally vexing question of what women want. Men, take note: it figured out the answer by asking...