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...wrestling events are sold out night after night; pay-per-view revenues and sales of merchandise (toys, video games, hats, tank tops, temporary tattoos, backpacks, beach towels, hot sauces, Halloween costumes) are well over a billion dollars; and celebrities are beginning to make cameo appearances. In July, for example, Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, lately of the NBA finals, will do battle as members of opposing tag teams in a WCW match. There is even a plan for a chain of WCW theme restaurants, the first of which will open this September in Las Vegas...
That steamy story line contrasts with the romantic fantasies and crusty musings of Don Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...
...isolated case. Little League coaches in Runnemede, N.J., settled a suit for $125,000 after a fly ball injured an outfielder. In Stillwater, Okla., Karl Oltmanns, 68, a volunteer civic-group treasurer, paid $43,000 out of pocket to settle a funds-mismanagement case after his organization inadvertently let its directors' insurance lapse. On the nightmare chart, such cases rival a date with Freddy Krueger...
...shrewd thought: the Standard Oil monopoly represented a centralized, hierarchical organization that was as intolerant of competitors as the Vatican was of heretics. Chernow proposes a shrewder thought: "At times, when he railed against cutthroat competition and the vagaries of the business cycle, Rockefeller sounded more like Karl Marx than our classical image of the capitalist." America is still trying to figure out where it stands concerning monopoly and competition...
Depending on the source, Chanel's return to the fashion world has been variously attributed to falling perfume sales, disgust at what she was seeing in the fashion of the day or simple boredom. All these explanations seem plausible, and so does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success. Lagerfeld--who designs Chanel today and who has turned the company into an even bigger, more tuned-in business than it was before--points out, "By the '50s she had the benefit of distance, and so could truly distill the Chanel look...