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Despite a trend toward the curbing of executive bonuses, not all companies are marching in the same direction. At Paramount's annual meeting last week, one shareholder tried unsuccessfully to table a motion calling for 5.75 million shares of future stock options for executives. Chairman Marvin Davis claims creative businesses require such lures to hook and hold top talent. Stockholders registered resounding agreement: better than 90% of shares voted at the meeting approved the motion authorizing the Paramount perks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation: Getting The Message | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...well, has evolved into an icon in the black community, revered by African Americans ranging from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the members of the raging rap group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle to Film Malcolm X | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Photographs: 1932-1939--Through May I. Schlesinger Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...style is more like the knife-in-the-gut meanness of Joe McCarthy than the deft ridicule used so successfully be George Wallace and Marvin Griffin...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Scared Down South | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Faust had two goals in the game, scoring once in the first quarter and again in the second off a pass from freshman midfielder Pat Marvin...

Author: By Tom W. Grave, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Laxmen Manhandled By C.W. Post, 11-4 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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