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...author of The Eagle Has Two Heads, Jean Cocteau, was the David Lynch of his day. Both Lynch and Cocteau have garnered multi- media success. In the past year, Lynch has created movies, TV series, commercial, The Eagle Has Two Heads Directed by Jonathan Hamel At the Agassiz Theater Through November 17 comic strips, paintings and albums; Cocteau had a similarly diverse career. The French artist wrote newspaper columns, painted church murals, composed volumes of poetry, directed films and, of course, penned ,many plays. And like Lynch, Cocteau brought an intensely personal vision to his work, a vision which defies...
...with Lynch's Wild at Heart, The Eagle Has Two Heads is stuffed with symbolisn and thick with metaphors. The Queen predicts the events of the play with a deck of fortune-telling cards. Stanislas is also known as Azreal, or "angel of death." And there are fairly explicit allusions to, and indeed, reenactments of, such works as Hamlet. But this self-conscious symbolism need not be over- analyzed; it exists merely to provide texture...
...successful woman. That debate was further fueled by the announcement by TV newswoman Connie Chung that she would abandon the fast track at CBS in a last-ditch drive for motherhood at age 44. Meanwhile, male role models are also in flux. Wall Street wonder boy Peter Lynch hung up his $13 billion mutual fund to do good deeds and have more time with his family. What generation in history has enjoyed such liberty to write the rules as it goes along? Over the past 30 years, all that was orthodox has become negotiable...
...that there were "two things that you have to know in this family. One, that my wife is the commander in chief and, two, that my mother-in-law is the supreme commander in chief." Natori, 43, must rank as at least a five-star general. Merrill Lynch's first female investment banker, Natori rose to vice president of the company before leaving in 1977 to create her own firm. She started small, working in her New York City apartment, designing and selling fine lingerie. In a pinch, she even packed the orders herself. Today Natori Co. has splashy headquarters...
Even alarmists concede that newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail...