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Ever since squealing, swooning teenage girls at Manhattan's Paramount Theater gave him his first fame in the early '40s, Sinatra, now 70, has swaggered about the world like a quattrocento tyrant, kissing the rings of bigshots and gangsters, throwing tantrums, shoving women around, and bloodying ordinary citizens who failed to grovel sufficiently. His messes have been cleaned up by bodyguards, lawyers and flacks, using money, the borrowed reputations of the influential and Sinatra's own powers of retaliation...
...China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping and East European leaders like Honecker have their own agendas to promote. The East bloc nations face serious balance-of-trade problems that lucrative new commercial agreements with the Chinese could help to correct. The Chinese, for their part, produce an enormous quantity of consumer items, particularly textiles and simple manufactured goods like thermos bottles that they would like to barter for East European machine tools and other basic products needed to equip their burgeoning rural industries. China's primitive manufacturing concerns can neither afford nor fully exploit the benefits of advanced Western technology...
...entire legal system rests on the idea that individual rights are paramount. Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty and every individual is treated as precisely that--an individual, not a member of a group. To deny this truth is to reject the fundamental democratic principle that the law was created to treat people equally...
...planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services, to become NBC's new chairman...
Forget about how much Paramount Pictures is congratulating itself on managing to get together all the ingredients for a blockbuster. Go see Heartburn not because it is one of the best movies you will ever see, but because it is one of the most realistic...