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...absence of direct control and deliberate structure, however, that moved W.L. Gore & Associates, the 32-year-old outfit that introduced Teflon products, from a glorified mom-and-pop operation to a company with 37 plants worldwide. Gore's 5,000 workers ("associates" in company parlance) turn out everything from electronics to a new dental product for gum regeneration. Associates are urged to take long chances. "At Gore," says Jeanne Ambruster- Sherry, a biologist who works in the company's sales-and-marketing division, "if you're not making mistakes, you're doing something wrong." Vieve Gore, 77, who co-founded...
...director's first for-sure comedy, Blue Velvet for laughs. The plot, from Barry Gifford's noirish novel, is your standard slice of poisoned American pie: a pair of loser-friendly lovers, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern), hit the road to escape Lula's mom and a phalanx of psychos who vividly illustrate Lula's contention that the "whole world's wild at heart and weird on top." But the picture is charged with so much deranged energy, so many bravura images, that it's hard not to be seduced by the sick wonder...
...just about everybody chain-smokes, sometimes two cigarettes at a time. And, aptly for a film shown in the living movie museum of Cannes, Wild at Heart is Lynch's fond homage to The Wizard of Oz. Lula clicks her red slippers to get out of a jam. Her mom (played with lubricious abandon by Dern's mother Diane Ladd) is the Wicked Witch, all long nails, daft cackles and unquenchable vengeance...
First it was the Italians and the Jews. Now it is the Koreans. Each new group of immigrants has arrived in New York City scratching for a foothold. They open Mom and Pop stores in the cheapest neighborhoods and, as they succeed, stir the resentment of longtime residents who are often mired in poverty. South Korean immigrants now own 2,500 of the more than 3,000 fruit and vegetable stores in the New York City area. Blacks often resent the newcomers' ability to garner profits from their community. Differences in class and culture as well as stubborn myths have...
...single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your mom...