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America's leading gargoylophile, Michael Stopka of Chicago's Design Toscano, is a beneficiary and an instigator of the trend. In five years his business--"historical reproductions for home and garden"--has grown from a $6,000 stake to $6 million in sales, thanks largely to gargoyle paperweights, gargoyle table bases-even the occasional gargoyle lamp finial. Stopka links the knobby monsters' popularity to the current vogue of cherubim as a design motif, though he makes an interesting distinction: while gargoyle fanciers are largely male, angelic perfection tends to draw women. Men, apparently, feel more at home with the grotesque...
...when that heart-and-mind contact is lacking, the best-laid plans can be upset. Also the best-laid tables. A February business dinner at Spielberg's estate in Pacific Palisades was supposed to cinch the deal with Samsung, whose proposed stake in DreamWorks had grown from $500 million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg...
...dollar windfall for DreamWorks, is tied to box-office performance; if the films are dogs, HBO will pay considerably less. And what if all goes poorly? The team's investors could demand that their money be returned before S, K and G get paid for their two-thirds equity stake...
...People feel we have more at stake this year because we've gotten our asses kicked this winter by each other and by our coaches," senior heavyweight captain Sara Simmons said. "Everyone's been pushing each other really hard...
...trying] just to present facts, and tomake sure people recognize what the impact onstudents, families and institutions would be ifthis happened," Rudenstine said. "And since thefacts are sufficiently dramatic, they...speak forthemselves in many respects....My own sense isthat the nation just has such a deep stake in allof this, in the education of so many people...