Word: paule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt-free nature of the Time-Warner deal would have given the merged company far more flexibility than a Time-Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work, but it's much riskier...
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much class but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever comedy of sexual manners...
When Pope John Paul I suddenly died after just 33 days in office in 1978, Rome's tireless rumor mill lurched into high gear. Vatican fumbling and secrecy only compounded the confusion. The whispers about skulduggery revived in 1984, when author David Yallop speculated in his best-selling book, In God's Name, that the Pope had been poisoned by one of half a dozen suspects with various motives...
Cornwell's conclusion is that John Paul I died of a pulmonary embolism. (In 1978 the Vatican had said a heart attack was the cause.) His death apparently resulted from long-standing medical problems that were exacerbated by the early pressures of being Pope. Still, Rome may rue the day it encouraged Cornwell. The full story of the Pope's death, says Cornwell, is "much more shameful" than mere murder, and "the whole of the Vatican is responsible." In the days before he died, says Cornwell, John Paul suffered severe chest pains and swelling of his legs, yet nobody sought...
...gossipy eunuchs" and "a sea of brilliant bitchery." Last week a Vatican official derided Cornwell's findings as "lamentably gossipy." But disturbing as the author's conclusions may be, not everyone was displeased. "It's much better to appear a little ridiculous," said Vittoria Marigonda, secretary to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, "than to be seen as a bunch of murderers...