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From here on, the memories cut too close to be laughed at with such insouciance. Take the weird belief of the 1980s in mergers for their own sake, irrespective of what was being merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORTY YEARS OF NONSENSE | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...without a clear idea of what exactly it would do. His saying was, "The Holy Spirit will provide." The council, which outlived him, proved a typical '60s event, sending one of the most traditional institutions on earth on a roller coaster of fashionable innovation and change for the sake of change. But while he lived, John's interventions in the council's work were well judged and effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: John Paul II, Kitchen Pope, Warrior Pope | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...unwanted; fellatio has begun before he starts emitting virginal squeaks of protest. As the movie develops, we are meant to perceive a causal link between / Meredith's sexual voraciousness and her incomprehensible, corporate schemings. Eventually they begin to feel like a lot of plotting for plotting's sake, something to do for the second half of what would otherwise have been a very short and simple tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sex! Controversy! Box Office! | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...Inman Square for a good number of years was strictly a family area, a workman's area," says Wheeler. "The area is changing. There are more, for sake of another word, yuppies who come...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Inman: Diverse, Friendly | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

...with gravity and grace. Adrian Lester, a willowy black Rosalind, has the gift of breathless apprehension, ever ready to burst into tears at the folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Something to Sing About | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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