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Foster graduated (cum laude) from Yale in 1985. But at that time Diller, chairman of 20th Century Fox, was probably not much interested in being good friends with her, or casting her in a movie. She wasn't box-office poison; she was box-office invisible. Another actress's hope was her fear: that she might end up as a regular on The Bold Ones. "My career was at a low point when I graduated," she notes, "but I couldn't let it go without a real push. Then it struck me that I wasn't going to do dreck...
...Poison. Anthrax. Alice in Chains. Skid Row. The band names alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...
...turning heavy metal into pure platinum. Skid Row's latest, Slave to the Grind, has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide since last June. Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge entered the charts 13 weeks ago at No. 1 and sold 2 million copies in less than a month. Poison's past three albums, Look What the Cat Dragged Down, Open Up and Say Ahh and Flesh and Blood, have sold a combined total of 12 million copies; all five of Motley Crue's have sold more than 1 million each...
Indeed, the distraction--and its consequences for students' academic lives--can mean poison, some students...
Mitterrand, on an official visit to Germany, argued that Yugoslavia must not be allowed to "poison European cohesion." But beyond whatever precedent it was setting for the fragmenting Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe, the crisis was already seeping venom into the West. The main rubs: How could the E.C. enforce a peace, and what kind of peace did it want? With French support, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher undertook to jump-start a rusting security mechanism, the Western European Union. Consisting of nine of the 12 E.C. members -- Denmark, Ireland and Greece do not belong...