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...Love video: no problem. Every fresh outrage is a soaring career move. Last week Madonna made the front page of the New York Daily News by giving a chatty-sassy interview to the gay biweekly The Advocate. She gets tabloid treatment -- just as much as she wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity Fair, she's done them all in the past month. And what has she done to earn this cover coverage? She overexposed herself (nothing new there). She took Michael Jackson to the Oscars (Stop the presses!). And she put together a docudrama of her 1990 Blond...
...women at Harvard. Yet on questions of crucial importance to female undergraduates--for instance, establishing date rape workshops for incoming first-year students and improving the escort service--Linda Wilson and her colleagues have been strangely silent. They are going to have to come up with more than slick public relations phrases if they are really interested in improving the environment for women here. And if they aren't, they should at least be honest about...
...them and ask them." The C+C method is to use the vocalists to front its house productions, then develop solo projects for them if the hits keep coming. Clivilles and Cole play drums, percussion and keyboards, write the songs, and do all the arranging. The result is as slick as the Rockefeller Center ice rink in February, and just as chilly: plenty of fancy footwork, and a radical shortage of heart...
...mammoth slick that oozed out of the Exxon Valdez tanker into Alaska's Prince William Sound two years ago may have been tough on otters and seagulls, but it was black gold for the legal profession. The 1989 disaster generated more than 300 lawsuits. Last week the largest was settled barely a month before it was due to go to trial, as Exxon reached an agreement with Alaska and the U.S. The cost: a guilty plea to three criminal charges that the company negligently discharged crude oil into navigable waters and killed migratory wildlife, and fines that may eventually total...
Thus Exxon's oil slick, which holds the North American record for volume (11 million gal.), cleanup costs ($2.5 billion) and bad publicity, has now set a new high mark for penalty payouts -- almost 40 times as great as any previous spill. Nonetheless, one critic denounced the settlement as an inadequate "back-room deal," while company chairman Lawrence G. Rawl declared that it "will not have a noticeable effect" on Exxon's financial results. But Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said it "sends a very important signal that there are criminal consequences for this kind of activity...