Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international publishing conglomerate. In the past three years alone, the adult general-interest book trade has been transformed by at . least 16 major acquisitions, from the 1986 purchase of Doubleday by West Germany's Bertelsmann (price: $500 million) to last year's takeover of Macmillan by British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell ($2.7 billion). As early as 1987, Warner Books chairman William Sarnoff quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report...
TALES FROM THE CRYPT (HBO, June 10, 9:30 p.m.). Those scary old E.C. comics inspired three horror tales, each directed by a Hollywood heavyweight: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon...
...million -- demonstrating that he didn't really need to organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with $575,086, and minority leader Robert Michel with $555,340. Banking Committee member David Dreier, New York's Stephen Solarz and the ever prosperous Dan Rostenkowski all have more than $1 million in their campaign treasuries...
...husband. Now these women and two others must fend off, or hop on, a platoon of randy males: Lisabeth's wormy ex (Wallace Shawn); her playwright brother (Ed Begley Jr.); her invalid prodigy son (Barrett Oliver); and two manservants, sleazy, pansexual Frank (Ray Sharkey) and Juan, the sensitive stud (Robert Beltran). "We're from different stratagems of society," Juan croons to Lisabeth. "But I want to cross over. Like Ruben Blades...
...tone in the country -- 'I'm going to get mine.' " If the big-shot investment banker can take what he wants, often by illegal means, then a teenager may think he should be able to grab the spoils in the only way he knows how. Declares Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Our culture accentuates instinct instead of inhibiting...