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...electric companies can match the Texas-size swagger of Enron, which vows to overpower its stodgy utility rivals. "What other industry in America still sends agents into your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER TO THE PEOPLE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Even though it was only a movie, the idea was eternal and the message, universal. It's all about attitude or, as Henry Higdon says, "it's that swagger in your step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Attitude | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...that swagger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Attitude | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

Markovic's favorite is now Marko, a race-car driver whom she calls "my wild young mustang." He owns a nightclub called Madona and by his own description loves loud music, women, cars and guns. His racing and gun-toting swagger seem in odd juxtaposition--or maybe not--to having missed out on military service when recruiters declared him mentally unstable. He is proud of his talent for crashing cars, however--30, at last count. "Daddy used to get angry until my 15th," Marko told the newsweekly Vreme. "And then he sort of gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLOBO, MIRA AND THEIR WILD BROOD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...tones of a film-noir musical. Buenos Aires becomes a character in the movie less by re-creating period exteriors than by focusing on the extras' faces--gorgeous, pensive reflections of Eva's sultry magnetism. But this is, essentially, a three-character play, demanding that the stars must sing, swagger and act with style. Pryce, consummate pro, lives fully in all three realms. Banderas parades his sex appeal as the one man who is not a father figure to Evita; he is the skeptical stud who can match her arrogance with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MADONNA AND EVA PERON: YOU MUST LOVE HER | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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