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...business. Hubner and Gruson report that Swami Ham now wants to build a new community in Pennsylvania or New Jersey where one could ride out nuclear war, the AIDS epidemic and economic depression. He has learned a fundamental truth about the great river of being: one can never step into the same cash flow twice...
...character who grows and doesn't just calcify, Lange brings wily zest to each step in Babs' coming-out party. She can toss dewy-eyed soul into a line like "I just want to be Mrs. Gavin Grey" -- all ardor, no condescension. She can bear, with a smoldering fuse, the later ordeal of player's wife and baby factory. She can tease Donnie while ironizing her flirtation: "It's every Southern mama's legacy to her daughter." She can seize control of her own life and still stand by her man. Gavin may have embodied, as the film suggests, "everything...
...public, though, allows the candidates to enjoy just so many benefits of ordinary life. Going to a psychiatrist or marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, thinks it a "sad commentary" that President Reagan referred to her husband as an "invalid" last August, after baseless rumors circulated that he had once sought counseling. "Everyone who needs help should be able to get it," she says. "It should never become a political decision...
...Botha, the next step is a white parliamentary election, which must be held no later than March 1990. Over the past year, the Conservative surge looked as if it might be unstoppable, and Botha unsuccessfully tried to ! engineer a constitutional amendment that would postpone the test for two more years. Now that the rightist threat seems to be at least temporarily quarantined in the Transvaal, many in Parliament speculate that he will call an election early next year and thus project his brand of crabbed and segregated reform into the middle of the next decade...
Early on, KKR reportedly offered Shearson a $125 million "kill fee" to step aside. Cohen brushed off the idea as "personally insulting." Once serious talks began, the participants saw they had different strategies in mind. KKR preferred to sell the tobacco business to pay back the buyout loans and retain the food businesses, a good fit with the Safeway chain. Johnson's team wanted to keep the tobacco company and sell off Nabisco, Del Monte and the other non-tobacco parts of the business. Positions hardened shortly after , midnight Tuesday, when KKR partner Roberts made what may prove...