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Just last week, American Home Products, a sprawling outfit whose wares range from Anacin to Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs, launched an $8.5 billion hostile bid for pharmaceutical maker American Cyanamid. At $95 a share, the offer was fully $32 a share more than Cyanamid's recent trading price, which made its shareholders the envy of Wall Street. Moreover, the staggering bid arrived while investors were still humming with reports that the Norfolk Southern railroad was in talks to acquire Conrail, once a sickly ward of the government but now a healthy freight hauler, in a deal that would create...
From pornographic violence to the outright bizarre to crazy gimmicks, the "Renegade Cinema of Doris Wishman," opening tomorrow at the Harvard Film Archives, offers the obscure film-lover a smorgasboard film-maker of the 60's and 70's, Wishman has been lost to the public eye for over a decade. She was purportedly found in a little lingerie shop in Miami and the Film Archive rushed her here for a retrospective...
Perhaps the most common way of making peace with death -- getting over it, in a sense -- is by thinking of it as a way to "meet one's maker." Religions of every kind might almost be said to exist to help us deal with our extinction. They tell us that something is waiting for us on the other side, that death may be a pilgrimage and not a destination, that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life. The huge best seller Embraced by the Light returns from the hereafter with the news that "all experiences...
...this reporter was waiting to speak with a movie maker, one man came by to ask a question. Upon being met with a lack of knowledge, he proceeded to inform this reporter of the answers to his own questions...
...other documents obtained through the same court case, which involves leading cigarette maker brown and Williamson, say differently...