Word: relentlessness
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...star cruisers, speeding asteroids, menacing centipedes and ravenous Pac-Men. Such dangers, however, are hardly more fearsome than the real-world disasters now battering the manufacturers of the games. With the crucial Christmas season approaching, the once thriving industry is being zapped by overheated competition, an oversupply of games, relentless price-cutting, plunging profits and a new finickiness among young video fans. For the dozens of companies in the contest, the name of the game has suddenly become Survival. Admits President William Grubb of Imagic, which makes Demon Attack and Cosmic Ark: "Our industry is in chaos...
Since 1980 the dollar's surge has been all but relentless. Its value has increased 105% in relation to the French franc, 53% against the West German mark and 50% against the British pound. Now America's currency is about 25% too strong for its own good, according to such experts as C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, and Otto Eckstein, chairman of Massachusetts-based Data Resources...
Over the past century, the organized bar in the U.S. has waged a relentless and effective campaign against lay judges. In Vermont, which is still governed by a part-time legislature where lawyers are in a minority, most efforts to curtail the assistant judges' power through legislation have failed...
...pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical events, devoid of sentiment. One marriage ended in divorce, another in bitter estrangement. Two of his sons left home as early as possible, while his daughter conceived an incestuous attachment to him that ended in her suicide...
...than those described by Döblin. I had . . . unconsciously made Döblin's fantasy my own life." In 1980 he got the chance to turn his life into a movie, when Bavaria Studios gave him $6 million for a 14-episode film of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The relentless, triumphant result-15 hours, 21 minutes of degradation redeemed by art-opens this week in a Manhattan moviehouse. (It will be shown in five weekly segments, each about three hours long...