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Those who perceive a drop-off in maintenance tend to blame deregulation and the pressure it has placed on airline profits. Maintenance is expensive: when United performs a major overhaul on a 747, the job consumes almost 15,000 worker-hours and $2.5 million. During the first eight years after...
THE LOUDEST EXPLOSIONS The noisy breakups of Joan Collins and Peter Holm (after 13 months of marriage); Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen (after 19 months); and Madonna and Sean Penn (after 28 months), who -- don't hold your breath -- seem to have had second thoughts.
SEEKING DIVORCE. Sylvester Stallone, 41, blood-and-guts, hero-as-underdog actor-producer whose Rocky and Rambo films have grossed more than $1 billion; and Brigitte Nielsen, 24, statuesque (6 ft.) Danish model and actress (Red Sonja, Beverly Hills Cop II); on the ground of irreconcilable differences; after 19 months...
"We have a bigger star than Sylvester Stallone," boasts Lawrence Gleason, marketing chief for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the movie-production company owned by Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis. And who is that superluminary? "Greed," says Gleason. The base emotion has a starring role in the U.S. opening of De Laurentiis...
Another powerful image: Wall Street millionaires arrested for insider trading and taken off in handcuffs. Not long ago, the "go for it" mentality of untrammeled capitalism was a virtue in the culture of Reaganism. Now that culture is being questioned. The Rambo story, which was a cartoon of Reaganism's...