Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does one capitalize of such an unexpected success? Mark Twain followed Tom Sawver with a slew of spin-offs, some, like Huckleberry Finn, classics in their own right: others, like Tom Sawyer, Detective, obvious efforts to keep the Clemens' larder well-stocked at a minimum of effort...
...better than they have any right to. No master of mise-en-scene, no Mr. Meticulous, Landis propels his pictures on attitude. If you buy the mood, you buy the movie. Into the Night is irresistible because Landis' have-fun-with-it mood allows for crazy- acute characterizations that spin the spectator off balance and give him a giggle in the process. The whole oddball cast, which includes a movie buff's dream clutch of 17 Hollywood directors,* plays the moments of pathos as easily as the streaks of melodrama and farce...
...reason for the spin-off spree is that many conglomerates have taken a beating in the stock market. Investors are increasingly disillusioned with the notion that a single management can successfully handle a grab bag of companies. Observes Norman Berg, a professor at Harvard Business School: "In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock market favored growth by acquisition. Now the liquidation value of companies is thought to be greater than the sum of their parts...
...lecture on the primal significance of dance. From there we go on a whirlwind tour of dance around the world and through the ages, bringing us to the present: Gene Kelly in a New York playground explaining the art of break-dancing. Unfortunately, Gene refuses to moon-walk or spin on his venerable head...
...soon as Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker finished their pas de deux in the West Wing press room, Congressmen tried to put a cautiously upbeat spin on the news. "It seems logical once you get over the first surprise," ventured Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's something I wouldn't have thought of," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. "But it turns out it's a good switch...