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...legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else in contemporary American theater. While others wrote spare, personal, ironic plays, Wilson's were big, verbose and passionate, brimming with social protest and epic poetry. Offstage, too, he was a maverick, opposing color-blind casting and advocating what some felt was a separatist black theater. Yet his work will endure, for everyone. --By Richard Zoglin
...story says a lot about what Icahn's latest target, media giant Time Warner (which publishes TIME), is up against as the renowned Wall Street maverick pushes the company to boost its stock price, stalled at about $18. Icahn's prescription is strong (and expensive) medicine: a $20 billion stock buyback and the spin-off of its vast cable operations. Icahn, the Princeton University philosophy major from Queens, N.Y., who staked his earliest ventures with money he won playing poker in the Army, loves taking on the big boys. He won't be bluffed--and he often wins...
...raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen...
...allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington's "barbaric act of terrorism," adding...
...illegal downloading, is delighted by the new sales outlets. Starbucks' biggest score to date came from Ray Charles' final album, Genius Loves Company, which sold nearly a third of its 3 million copies at barista stations. That success has lent Starbucks new clout with music companies. Madonna's Maverick label gave Starbucks an exclusive six-week window to sell Alanis Morissette's all-acoustic version of her first hit album, Jagged Little Pill, and the coffee company is launching a new girl group, Antigone Rising, whose debut CD (from Lava Records) is available only through Starbucks. "With file-sharing being...