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...Ray Smith, chairman of Bell Atlantic and the force behind the company's historic purchase of TCI, has probably compiled a ''theatrical resume.'' Productions not shown include The Most Eminent Saga (director and playwright) and Marat/Sade (director...
...responsibilities.'' Still others believe Malone will soon move on. ''It's inconceivable to me that John Malone is going to report to someone else,'' says a competitor who knows him. ''John's the smartest man I've ever met, and he had too many things going on to let Ray Smith run things. I think it says that John is ready to try something different.'' The two men are an odd couple by any standard. While they share a passionate vision of the superhighway, their personalities and backgrounds are a study in contrasts. Smith, an amateur actor and the divorced...
...most cost-effective. It may be a permanent fact of the nuclear age that offense wins. No matter what SDI produces in the way of lasers and particle beams, the Soviets' nuclear offense--unless it is constrained by arms-control agreements--will eventually be able to ''beat'' Reagan's ray guns just as it beat Ike's antiaircraft system and Nixon's ABMs. In an attempt to deal with that dilemma, some officials have linked SDI to arms control: the superpowers should agree to an orderly, regulated transition from the MAD world of ''offense-dominant'' deterrence to one of ''defense...
Industry watchers were alarmed last week when Wagoner had to insist that the company was not considering bankruptcy. Ray Young, GM's chief financial officer, conceded that the company will post a "significant" loss when it reports its second-quarter earnings, but, he told TIME after the announcement of the latest cuts, the talk about bankruptcy was "unfortunate." He said, "It's a distraction. We wanted to dispel any concerns anyone might have. Frankly, that's just not in the cards...
This is a different kind of cultural language from Vietnam movies, where the Doors or Jimi Hendrix would sonically represent the dark terror of war. Here, it's all ironic contrast. After the accidental shooting of a civilian, Corporal Josh Ray Person (James Ransone) cracks, "It's all that damn gangsta rap and those video games that are desensitizing today's youth to violence...