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Financially the picture is more mixed. World opinion tends to view them as a monolith, but the companies are quite independent and sharply competitive with each other-although they cooperate in all sorts of joint ventures. They have personalities about as varied as those of seven real-life sisters, and their performance differs too. Right now Texaco and Gulf are suffering through slumps that will be difficult to reverse. Some of the other companies' profits are being held down by a number of factors. Among them: lower sales in Europe and bookkeeping losses incurred by translating foreign-currency accounts...
Scaggs opted, not surpisingly, for the change. "Silk Degrees," arguably the biggest hit last season by an artist or group not including Mick Fleet-wood, was a monolith, spinning off three hit singles and booming Boz Scaggs squarely into the Top 40 spotlight. His concerts, never before especially noteworthy, were suddenly sellouts. The days of the six-piece Texas blues band and the scruffy cowboy threads were gone forever; Boz was fronting a full orchestra and twirling stylishly onto the stage in silk scarves, Cardin suits and Gucci loafers. The image, after all, fit the music--slick and seamless...
...concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison. One warning: don't wast too much time trying to figure out the significance of the monolith and some of the more obscure scenes in 2001; you can save yourself the trouble by reading screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke's book on the film if you are analytically inclined. Better yet, just sit back and space out on the colors...
...Clarke novel superior aliens arriving in the form of a black monolith, the Devil, or a spaceship as big as a planet, would resolve the stalemate, usually by initiating man into a higher consciousness. Overmind--mind without matter--is the highest product of evolution in Clarke's scheme. Such a mind can flit from star to star, experience eternity as a single instant, and generally paint the universe red. (so if you were wondering what that baby floating across the stars at the end of 2001 was all about, now you know...
...they were hardly aiming high. Richard Cannon, HCHP director of development and planning, said the figures were more reasonable expectations than they were difficult goals. But the plan's directors are not to be blamed for aiming low. They want to avoid turning the program into a health care monolith. As Cannon put it, "We don't want to create a McDonald's for medical care." However, if the plan reaches its expected enrollment for 1982, and if no competing plan has emerged in Boston, there will be good reason to worry. Someday HCHP's growth must stop...