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...things that way, is Charles Hurwitz, a Houston-based junk-bond wizard who plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company, MAXXAM (1995 sales: $2.57 billion), bought Pacific Lumber, the redwoods' owner. Hurwitz visited PL's Scotia, California, mill, and told workers he believed in the golden rule: "He who has the gold, rules." Then he drained $55 million from PL's $93 million pension fund, and cranked up the timber cut to pay off his debt...
...poster girl, her Bible beating turned off the public at large. Along with her popularity, she eventually lost a $100,000-a-year contract with the Florida Citrus Commission. Her 20-year marriage to manager Bob Green also ended. Bryant had once denounced divorce as a sin; today, it seems, she's been reborn. In 1990 she married former NASA test crewman Charlie Dry, a childhood sweetheart from Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Last year the two purchased the Anita Bryant Theater in Branson, Missouri, where she performs country oldies and gospels each week to growing crowds. She shies away from discussing homosexual...
...napkins in a meaningless symmetry or checking a hundred times to make sure the electric coffeemaker is turned off. Themes of dirt, contamination or germs rule their thoughts, and other common obsessions center on horrific or violent images, a need for symmetry or exactness, or an exaggerated sense of sin or morality...
...Connecticut and get smacked on the nose with a newspaper by his wife. This is the oldest story: sex and politics, powerful men doing stupid, squalid things. No harm done, except to Morris and family. Morris' wife said in an interview with TIME, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Of course most of us do not manage to sin as colorfully as Dick Morris apparently...
...premise behind the futuristic "Escape From L.A." is promising but proves unfulfilling. It is the early 21st century and Los Angeles has degenerated into a center of immorality and sin. The new president-for-life (Cliff Robertson) declares the United States a land of moral superiority--no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion. When a massive earthquake strikes southern California separating Los Angeles physically from the mainland, the president declares the new island outside America's borders and deports all immoral citizens of the U.S. to the City of Angels...