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...slow down the Crimson, however, who took two in Max Bishop stadium...
Procter & Gamble made its mark with such homely household products as Crisco, Tide and Ivory soap, but now the Cincinnati-based giant is paying up for glamour. In a move to strengthen its worldwide beauty business, P&G (1990 sales: $24 billion) last week agreed to buy the Max Factor cosmetics firm and Betrix, a German makeup and fragrance manufacturer, from Ronald Perelman's debt-burdened Revlon for $1.14 billion in cash. The deal "speeds up the global expansion of the company by at least five years," said P&G chief Edwin Artzt, who has focused on foreign growth since...
...deal means a measure of financial relief for Perelman, who acquired control of Revlon for $2.7 billion in a bitter 1985 takeover fight. To expand his cosmetics empire, Perelman subsequently paid some $300 million for Max Factor in 1986 and about $170 million for Betrix in 1989. Now, to pare his junk-bond debt, he has begun selling assets as fast as he once acquired them. What might be next? Perelman's advisers said the erstwhile raider could soon put on the block such tony cosmetics brands as Princess Marcella Borghese and Charles of the Ritz...
Every artist needs some source of inspiration. Max Ernst, the lyric German subversive who was born 100 years ago, had one that carried him through most of his life. He hated his father, a pious Catholic art teacher who worked in a school for deaf and mute children in a small forest town south of Cologne. Indeed, Ernst wanted to kill Papa and what he thought he represented: the authority of age, religion, the state and the image...
...little Oedipus Max, the future Dadaist, had a dream, an obsessive vision: "I see in front of me a panel crudely painted with large black strokes on a red ground, imitating the grain of mahogany . . . In front of this panel a black and shiny man is making slow, comic and joyously obscene gestures. This strange fellow has the mustache of my father . . . He smiles and takes out of the pocket of his trousers a large pencil made of some soft material . . . breathing loudly, he hastily traces some black lines on the panel of false mahogany. He quickly gives...