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...Line, too, has been producing only a few movies a year, and its library is not big. Even if both companies begin expensively cranking up their output (as Castle Rock intends), Turner's entertainment-progr amming maw would barely register the impact. Turner is getting New Line's distribution system, but as Castle Rock's spokesman says dismissively of his corporate sibling-to- be, they put out mainly "B-type product. They're second tier...
...Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin, who in the early 1980s pioneered the food-fight format, in which print journalists engage in opinionated shouting matches: "They're also better performers...
...reason the '50s was called the silent generation was because its collective maw was too full to say anything. The "togetherness" theme played endlessly by McCall's magazine was a merchandiser's dream: the family as a consuming unit. Not everyone was satisfied. Halberstam's dissenters include Sloan Wilson, who popularized the rat race in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique, along with Goody Pincus' birth-control pill, challenged traditional relations between men and women...
Other G-7 members, and even some Russians, fear Western aid will largely be wasted, disappearing without a trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...
...held in London in July. There he could make his pitch in person to the leaders of the countries that could supply the grants, loans and credits he seeks and try to reassure them that the money would be put to good use rather than disappearing into the maw of the chaotic Soviet economy...