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...attract new investors, the studio last week disclosed plans for a "major capital or financial restructuring" and an executive shake-up that pushed chairman and octogenarian co-founder Arthur Krim into an essentially powerless position. Such actions may not be enough. Orion's upcoming releases look weak -- and the studio is so hungry for cash that last month it sold its most promising new picture, a movie version of TV's cult hit The Addams Family, to Paramount at a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERTAINMENT: Dances with Debt | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...ahead, blame me for making women seem helpless and passive. Tell me I'm denying that women have the responsibility to take care of themselves. If expecting men to treat women with respect and consideration makes me powerless instead of just normal, I'm guilty as charged. Lynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No "No" Doesn't Mean "Yes" | 3/13/1991 | See Source »

...Powerless I watch with shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Confederate Flag: 'Southern Pride' or Racism? | 3/2/1991 | See Source »

THESE DAYS, there's a new sign hanging in The Crimson's newsroom. It quotes Freire: "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...definitely noticed the sign last week when I was thinking about the war. I don't think I noticed it because I had some sudden realization about the nature of life, but because this time I was feeling powerless...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

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